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Additions to Naturalization Laws. 

(Read in Connection with Pages 7 and 8.) 

Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years U'ho 
shall have been a citizen for ninety days shall 
be entitled to vote at any election. 

New Constitution, 1894. 

Final application of aliens shall be filed in the 
Court to which it was presented, at least fourteen days 
before final action thereon shall be had. 








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THE 

ELECTOR’S HAND BOOK 


DIGEST 


-OF THE- 



-OF THE- 

STATE OF NEW YORK, 


APPLICABLE TO THE 


CITY OF NEW YORK 


COMPILED BY 

JEFFERSON M. LEVY. 

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PUBLISHED BY 

William P. Mitchell, Printer*? £5* 
39 Beekman Street; 


1895 


NEW YORK. 
1895. 






















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Copyright 1895, 

BY 

. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL. 


Offices to be filled, November 5th, 1S!)5. 
STATE OFFICERS. 

Secretary of State. Comptroller. 

State Treasurer. Attorney-General. 

State Engineer and Surveyor, to serve for three years. 
Judge of the Court of Appeals. 

Twelve State Senators: (New York City,) three years each. 
Thirty-five Assemblymen: (New York City,) one year each. 

JUDICIAL OFFICERS. 

Three (New) Justices of the Supreme Court. 

COUNTY OFFICERS 
Two Judges of City Court. 

County Clerk. Register. 

Two Judges of Court of General Sessions. 





PREFACE 


It is not our object to place before the public all of the 
matter comprising the Election Laics as now in force, for 
first, it would make too large a volume for handy use, and 
secondly, we do not think that the Elector as a rule would 
read such a volume through even to pick out that part 
which directly interests him as to what he is personally to 
do on election day. 

It is to inform him as to that duty that this hand-book 
is gotten up ; to place before him a ready reference divest¬ 
ed of all the matter that belongs to other parts or duties of 
the Election Law, so that he may not only vote intelligent¬ 
ly, but quickly, by knowing in advance just what is 
required of him at the polling booth ; being prepared with 
his answers, and saving not only his own time but that of 
others who follow him. 

The duties of officials in connection with the law are, of 
course, alluded to generally, and the statutes quoted, so 
that they may be easily found. 

The numerous amendments that have in the past fifteen 
years been made to the Election Laws, have left them in a 
somewhat mixed condition, as portions of a law have been 
left in force, while other parts have been repealed, and 
some of the unrepealed laws only apply to other than 
cities. It is to such of the laws that apply to the city of 
New York that we have given our attention to in this work, 
so as to condense it to a size that it may be used as a Pocket 
Edition, and still have it in a fair and legible type. 




The amendments of IS95 are many, and intended 
to perfect the general laws on the subject, so that all Elec¬ 
tors should make an effort to inform themselves what to do 
this year and not rely on what they have done in the past. 

These amendments provide an entirely dif¬ 
ferent form of ballot from any heretofore used 
in this State . Also for additional duties upon 
the part of the voter in preparing his ballot. 

Iu this respect we give the sections of the new law in 
full. A careful reading of the condensed or digested sec¬ 
tions of the entire work should also be made, and will aid 
the elector to perform his duty understandingly. 

Where a reference is given as to chapter 410 of Laws of 
1882, it should be understood as covering the amendments 
to that chapter that have been since made. 


Be sure to Register. 

The days of registry are : 

First. —Tuesday, October 8th. 

Second. —Wednesday, October 16th. 

Third. —Friday, October 25th. 

Fourth. —Saturday, October 26th. 

From 8 o’clock a. m. to 9 o’clock p. m. 

If you do not Register, you cannot Vote. 

Read paragraphs 12 and 58 hereof. 





INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. 


Obtain a Sample Ballot. 

Sample ballots may be obtained at Police Headquarters, 
800 Mulberry Street, five days before Election Day ; 
also at Polling Place on Election Day. 

Read paragraphs 50 and 51 hereof. 

Be careful when voting bow you mark your ballot. 
Remember that a mark made on the face of your ballot, 
other than with a BLACK LEAD PENCIL, destroys it, 
and you lose your vote. 

Read paragraphs 50 and 57 hereof carefully. 

Go to the Polling Place early. 

Polls open at six o’clock in the morning, and close at 
four o’clock in the afternoon. If you are an employed 
■workingman your employer MUST allow yon two hours 
time in which to vote. (See paragraph 30.) 

If you have not obtained a sample ballot before, get one 
at the polling place. If registered you are entitled to re¬ 
ceive one. 

Study the directions printed at the top of the sample 
ballot so that you may know how to mark your official 
ballot when preparing it in the booth within the polling 
place. (See paragraph 50 hereof.) 

How to Prepare your Official Ballot. 

It is not lawful to make any mark upon the official ballot 
other than a cross (X) mark with a pencil, haring a Hack 
lead, or to mark, deface or tear a ballot in any manner, or 
to erase any printed device, figure or word therefrom, or to 
write anything thereon other than a name of a person for 






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whom the voter desires to vole, which is not printed on 
the ballot, * * * and any ballot so changed 

shall be wholly void and shall not be counted, If the 
elector mark more names than there are persons to be 
elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to 
determine the voter’s choice for an office to be filled, his 
ballot shall not be counted for such office, but no ballot 
shall be rejected for any technical error which does not 
make it impossible to determine the voter’s choice. 

See paragraph 59 hereof. 

Study the New Ballot Law. 

The part of the new law that most interests the voter, 
relates to the form of the new ballot, and How to properly 
mark your preference of candidates. The full tpxt of the 
“ Form of Ballot ” section will be found herein. 

See paragraph 50 hereof. 

What to do when in the Preparing Booth. 

The law allows you but fixe minutes in the booth to pre 
pare your ticket, so you should inform yourself before 
hand as to what you have to do. The full text of the 
“ Manner of Voting ” section will be found herein. 

See paragraph 60 hereof. 

Should you Spoil or Deface a Ballot. 

A spoiled ballot must be returned to the Ballot Clerk 
who will issue a new one to you and you can try again. 
You are entitled to four trials. 

You can only pass the guard-rail once for voting pur¬ 
poses. See paragraph 60 hereof. 

Read the Instruction Card. 

When in the preparing booth, if in doubt as to your duty, 
read the instruction card posted therein. If this does not 




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give the required information you can apply to the inspec¬ 
tors, whose duty it is to inform you. 

See paragraph 60 hereof. 

Keep Your Ballot Folded. 

Should you fold your ballot improperly, and apply for 
information as the proper manner of folding it, it must not 
be unfolded by any person so applied to, nor by yourself 
publicly. Its contents must be kept secret from every 
person other than yourself. 

Instructions as to the folding must be given by Sample 
Ballots. See paragraph 60 hereof 

If you change your Residence after Registering. 

If you have moved from one house to another in 
the same election district, be sure to have the registry 
changed. 

Bead paragraph 21 hereof. 

Residence Defined, 

For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to 
have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or 
absence while employed in the service of the United States, 
nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this 
State, or of the United States, or of the high seas, nor while 
a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept in an 
almshouse or other asylum at public expense, nor while 
confined in any public prison. 

Naturalized Citizens. 

If naturalized since 1867 take your papers with you both 
when you register and when you vote. It may save time 
and trouble. 

If you resided in the United States and were under the 
age of twenty-one when your parents were naturalized, 
and have your parents papers or certified copies, take them 
with you; if you have none your oath will suffice. 













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The children of persons who have been duly naturalized 
under the law of the United States, or who, previous to the 
passing of any law on that subject by the Government of 
the United States, may have become citizens of any one of 
the States, under the laws thereof, being under the age of 
twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their 
parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be consi¬ 
dered as citizens thereof; and the children of persons who 
now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, 
though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United 
Stales, be considered as citizens thereof; but no person 
heretofore proscribed-by any State, or who has been legally 
convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain dur¬ 
ing the Revolutionary war, shall be admitted to become a 
citizen without the consent of the Legislature of the State 
in which such person was prescribed. U. S. R. S;, 2d ed., 
sec. 2172, tit. 30. 

In what case a Voter may have Assistance. 

If at the time of registering, you know that you will by 
reason of any physical disability or illiteracy , require aid to 
prepare your ballot on Election day, you must make oath 
to that fact at the time your name is registered , whether 
the inspectors ask you such questions or not. 
If you do not do so, you cannot have assistance. 

If by reason of some accident or disease, you have since 
you registered, lost the use of both hands, become totally 
blind, or so crippled that you cannot enter the voting 
booth alone and prepare your ballot, you must so state on 
oath to the inspectors. 

In such case you may choose two of the Election officers 
(who must not be of the same political faith) to assist you. 
No other ‘persons can enter the voting booth with you. 

See paragraph 60 hereof. 


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THE NEW LAW 

RELATING TO 

POLITICAL EMBLEMS. 


Every political party or independent body making 
a nomination of candidates for office, must select, and tile 
with the certificate of nomination an emblem or device, to 
be printed as a distinguishing part of their political ticket, 
EXTRACTS FROM AMENDED LAW OF 1895, ch 
810, sec. 1. 

Sec. 56. * * * A certificate of nomination filed pur¬ 

suant to this section may, upon its face appoint a commit¬ 
tee of one or more persons for the purposes specified in 
section sixty-six of this act. When a party nomination is 
made by a State convention of a candidate or candidates to 
be voted for by the electors of the entire State, it shall be 
the duty of such convention to select some simple device or 
emblem to designate and distinguish the candidates of the 
political party, making such a nomination, or nominations. 
Such device or emblem shall be shown by a representation 
thereof upon a certificate signed and duly executed by the 
presiding officer and a secretary of said convention, to be 
filed with the secretary of state, and such device or em¬ 
blem, when so filed, shall in no case be used by any other 
party or independent body. 

When any independent body shall make a like nomina¬ 
tion, as provided by the fifty-seventh section of this act, it 
shall be the duty of the persons w T ho shall sign and execute 
the certificate of nomination of such candidate or candi- 




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dates, to likewise select some simple device or emblem to 
designate and distinguish the candidates of such independ¬ 
ent body, making such nomination, and such device or 
emblem, shall likewise be shown by a representation there¬ 
of upon a certificate signed and duly executed by the 
proper parties authorized for that purpose. The devices 
or emblems so chosen when filed as aforesaid, shall be used 
to designate and distinguish all the candidates of the same 
political party or independent body. 

And if any political party or independent body shall 
have made no nomination of candidates for offices to be 
filled by the voters of the entire State, but shall nominate a 
candidate or candidates for office to be filled by the voters 
of a district thereof, it shall be the duty of the persons who 
shall sign and execute the certificate of nomination, in like 
manner to select some simple device or emblem to desig¬ 
nate and distinguish the candidates of that political party 
or independent body, who are named in such certificate of 
nomination, and file the same in the offices or office wherein 
the certificates of nomination are required by law to be 
filed. 

The device or emblem to be chosen as aforesaid may be 
the representation of a star, an animal, an anchor or any 
other appropriate symbol; but neither the coat of arms nor 
seal of any State nor of the United. States, the national flag, 
nor any religious emblem or symbol, nor the portrait of 
any person, shall be chosen as such distinguishing device 
or emblem. If the certificates of nomination of two or 
more different political parties or independent bodies shall 
designate the same, or substantially the same, device or 
emblem or party name, the officer with whom the certifi¬ 
cates of nomination are filed shall decide which of said 
political parties or independent bodies is entitled to the use 
of such device or emblem or party name, being governed 
as far as may be, in his decision by priority of designation 


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in the case of the device or emblem, and by the priority of 
use in the case of the party name. If the other nominating 
bodj'' shall present no other device, or party name, he shall 
himself select for such other nominating body another 
device or party name, so that no two different parties shall 
be designated by the same device or party name. 

If there be a division within a party, and two or more 
factions claim the same, or substantially the same device 
or name, the officer aforesaid shall decide between such 
conflicting claims giving preference of device and name to 
the convention or primary, or committee thereof, recognized 
by the regularly constituted party authorities; and if 
the other faction or factions shall present no other device 
or party name, the said officer shall select a different device 
and party name for such other faction, which shall be used 
upon the ballots to distinguish the names of its candidates. 
If two or more conventions are called by different author¬ 
ities, each claiming to represent the same party for that 
purpose, the said officer shall select a suitable device and 
party name to distinguish the candidates of one faction 
from those of the others, and the ballots shall be printed 
accordingly, 

Any questions arising with reference to any device or to 
the political party or other name, designated in any certi¬ 
ficate of nomination filed pursuant to the provisions of this 
section, or of section fifty-seven of this act, or with refer¬ 
ence to the construction, validity or legality of any such 
certificate, shall be determined in the first instance by the 
officer with whom such certificate of nomination is filed. 
Such decision shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall 
be sent forthwith by mail by such officer to the committee, 
if any, named upon the face of such certificate, and also to 
each candidate nominated by any certificate of nomination 
affected by such decision. The supreme court, or any 
justice thereof, within the judicial district, or any county 




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judge within his county, shall have summary jurisdiction, 
upon complaint of any citizen, to review the determination 
and acts of such officer, and to make such order in the 
premises as justice may require. Such a complaint shall 
be heard upon such notice to such person as the said court 
or justice or judge thereof shall direct. 

If any certificate of nomination of candidates to be voted 
for by the voters of the entire State, filed with the secre¬ 
tary of state, pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall 
omit to designate a device or emblem to distinguish the 
candidates of the political party or independent body mak¬ 
ing such nomination, it shall be the duty of the secretary of 
state to select a device or emblem for that purpose, and 
such device or emblem so chosen shall be used to distin¬ 
guish all candidates of that same party or independent 
body throughout the State, whether such candidates are 
nominated for Stateor for local offices; and if any certificate 
of nomination of candidates to be filled by the voters of a 
district less than the entire State shall be filed with the 
secretary of state, or with any other public officer, pursuant 
to this statute, by a political party or independent bodj r 
which has made no nomination of candidates for offices to 
be filled by the voters of the entire State, and such certi¬ 
ficates of nomination shall omit to designate a device or 
emblem to distinguish the candidates nominated in such 
certificate it shall be the duty of the secretary of state or 
other 'public officer with whom such certificate of nomination 
is filed, to select a device or emblem to represent the candi¬ 
dates named in that particular certificate of nomination. 

Sec. 57. * * * All independent certificates of nomi¬ 

nation shall upon their face designate and select a device or 
emblem to represent and distinguish the candidate of the 
independent body making such nominations as provided 
by the fifty-sixth section of this act. The certificate may 
designate upon its face one or more persons as a committee 


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to represent the signers thereof for the purposes specified 
by section sixty-six of this act. The signatures to the 
certificate of nomination need not all be appended on one 
paper. 

Sec. 60. The secretary of state shall certify to the 
board of police commissioners of New York, the emblem 
or device chosen to represent and distinguish the candidates 
of the political party or independent body making such 
nominations. 

Sec. 61. At least six days before an election the board 
of police commissioners shall cause to be published in not 
less than two nor more than four newspapers within such 
city, * * * a fac simile of the emblems or devices 
selected and designated * * * to represent and dis¬ 
tinguish the candidates of the several parties. 

See also paragraph 50 hereof. 

AMENDED LAW, 

RELATING TO 

Duties of Inspectors of Election 

AND 

Blind, Crippled or Illiterate Voters. 


Extract : Laws 1892, Ch. 680, Sec. 32. 

Subdivision 1. The inspectors of each election district 
shall prepare at such meetings a list of the names and 
residences of persons qualified to vote in such district at 
such election, which when finally completed, shall be the 
register of the voters of the district for such election. 
Such lists shall be arranged in five columns. In the first 
column there shall be entered at the time of the corn- 





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pletion of the registry a number opposite the name of each 
person so registered, commencing with “one” and con¬ 
tinuing in consecutive order. In the second column shall 
be placed the surnames of such persons in the alphabetical 
order of the first letter thereof ; in the third column the 
Christian names of such persons respectively ; in the fourth 
column the residence of such person respectively, by street 
and number, if any, and otherwise a brief description of 
the locality thereof ; the fifth column is to be left for 
entering the consecutive number on the official ballot de¬ 
livered to the voter on election day. At each meeting, 
except the last, a space shall be left after each set of sur¬ 
names commencing with the same letter, sufficient for 
the addition thereto at subsequent meetings, of surnames 
commencing with the same letter. Before any such sur¬ 
names added at any such subsequent meeting there shall 
be written “ added at second meeting ” or “ added at third 
meeting,” or “ added at fourth meeting,” as the case may 
be. In cities and in villages having five thousand inhabit¬ 
ants or more, the names of such persons only as personally 
appear before the inspectors and are qualified voters shall 
be placed on such lists at a meeting for registry for a gen¬ 
eral election, or an annual city election of city officers, 
except as hereinafter provided for election districts in 
villages having five thousand inhabitants or more. At 
the first meeting of the inspectors in a city or village having 
five thousand inhabitants or more for registry for a 
special election, the inspectors shall place upon such lists 
the names of all persons qualified to vote at such election 
in such district which appear upon the register of voters 
for the last preceding general election in such election 
district, except the names of such voters as are proven to 
the satisfaction of the inspectors to have ceased to be 
voters of such district since their names were placed on 
Sficli register ; and shall at the other meetings for registry 


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for such special election, place upon such lists the names 
of all persons so qualified, who shall personally appear 
before the board at either of such meetings ; but no new 
names, not on such register, shall be placed on such lists, 
except of persons who so personally appear, except as 
hereinafter provided. 

Subdivision 2. If, at any meeting for the registry of 
voters, any person entitled to have his name placed on 
the list of voters and of whom personal registry is required 
shall declare to the officers conducting such registry that, 
he is unable to write by reason of illiteracy or that he 
will be unable to prepare his ballot without assistance by 
reason of total blindness, loss of both hands, or such total 
inability of both hands that he can not use either hand 
for ordinary purposes, or that he will be unable to enter 
the voting booth without assistance by reason of disease, 
the nature of which he must specify, or by reason of a 
crippled condition, the nature of which he must specify, it 
shall be the duty of the said officer to administer an oath 
to such person in the following language, namely : “ You 

do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are unable to write 
by reason of illiteracy,” or “you do solemnly swear (or 
affirm) that you will be unable to prepare your ballot with¬ 
out assistance, because,” and after the word “ because/' 
they shall insert the specific cause or reason assigned by 
such person for disability, or “you do solemnly swear (or 
affirm) that you will be unable to enter the voting booth 
without assistance, because,” and after the word “jbecause,” 
they shall insert the specific disease, or crippled condition, 
and the said officers shall make a note upon the registry 
list of each instance in which such oath is administered and 
of the cause or reason so assigned by the person taking the 
same for such disability so sworn to. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

See paragraph 00 hereof. 




LAWS 


Regulating the Conduct of Elections 

IN THE 

CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK 

1895 . 


1. 1leaj)j)ortionment of the City and County of 
New York. 

See New Constitution, adopted 1894. 

See also Map. 

2. Alteration and arrangement of Election 
Distiicts. 

Laws 1847. Amended by Laws 1890, cli. 1G9. 
Laws 1892, ch. 6S0, sec. 8. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

3. Elections to conform to state law. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1844. 

4. Secretary of S'ate to notify County Clerk. 

Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

Sheriff or county clerk to notify Aldermen, &c. 
Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1931. 

5. Date and Notice of a General Election. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1839, 



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6. Election day a legal holiday. 

Laws 1882, eh..410, sec. 1840. 

7. Hours of Opening and Closing Polls. 

New York City. Open six o’clock a. m. 

“ “ Close four o’clock p. m. 

Laws 1894, ch. 275, sec. 3. 

8. No intermission or Adjournment. 

Laws 1894, ch. 275, sec. 3. 

9. Designation of Polling Places and Registry. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1873. 

10. No spirituous or intoxicating liquors to be in 
troduced or sold in polling places. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1873, 1924. 

11. Qualified voters to be registered by election 
districts. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1857. 

Registry to include physical distinguishing marks. 

Laws 1895, ch. 1034. 

12. Days of Registry. 

From the hour of eight in the morning to nine in the 
evening. On Tuesdajq four weeks, the Wednesday of the 
third week, and the Friday and Saturday of the second 
week preceding the day of the November election, in each 
year. No Saturday shall be deemed a holiday or half¬ 
holiday so as to affect the registration of voters. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1857, 1858. 

Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. 41. 

13. Disqualification of Voters. 

No person convicted of bribery, or an infamous crime, 
* * * unless sentenced upon conviction to a reforma¬ 
tory, or unless he shall have been pardoned before or after 
the expiration of his term of imprisonment, and restored 
by the pardon to all his rights of a citizen, shall vote at an 
election. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1915. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, see. 30. 




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14. List of registered voters to be made. Duty 
of Inspectors; Captain of Police; Chief of Bureau of Elec¬ 
tions. 

Laws 1882, cli. 410, sec. 1865. 

15. Public Copy of List. 

A public copy of each list shall, at the close of each 
day’s registration, be left suspended in the place of regis¬ 
tration, until the day of election, to the end that the same 
may be inspected and copied by any elector in the city 
and county. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1864. 

16. Qualified voters may challenge at Regis¬ 
try. 

A qualified voter of the city may on registry day, or day 
of revision, challenge and contest the right of any person 
to be registered, or to vote, or may require a registered 
name to be marked for challenge, and shall be entitled to 
be heard by the inspectors in relation to correctness of or 
additions to their registers. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1872. 

17. Applicant may be Challenged. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 85. 

18. Duty of Challenged Applicant . 

The board of inspectors shall administer to such appli¬ 
cant the oath required by law, and examine him as to his 
qualifications as an elector, and may require him to state 
his age, residence by street and number ; if he be a house¬ 
holder or not; if not, the name of householder with whom 
he resides and in like manner to describe the residence of 
such householder. If the oath be refused his name shall 
not be placed on registry list, but if oath be taken and he 
testify to such circumstances which qualify him to vote at 
such election, his name shall be added to such list. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 85. 

19. Certain Pudges may, on notice, add to, or 
strike names from, the list. 

Laws 1894, ch. 275, sec. 37. 


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20. Removal from one District to Another, 

No person registered in one district shall register or cause 
himself to be registered in another while any prior regis¬ 
tration remains unerased. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1875. • 

21. Elector so moving may apply for certificate. 

* Personal application must be made at any meeting of 
the inspectors prior to the day of election, in the district 
wffiere registered, and by oath made before such inspectors 
it must be shown that prior to the close of the revision of 
registration applicant removed from his then registered 
dwelling place. 

f If the inspectors are satisfied of the fact, by inquiry or 
otherwise, and the new dwelling be in the same election 
district, they shall re-register such name in its proper place 
on their books, but if such new dwelling be in another 
district they shall strike such name from their register, 
writing thereon the reasons therefor. 

* Application may then be made to the inspectors of the 
new district. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1870. Amended. 

22. False Oath —Perjury. 

False swearing or affirming, declared willful and corrupt 
perjury. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1912. 

23. Subordination of Perjury, 

To willfully and corruptly instigate, advise, induce or 
procure any person to swear or affirm falsely, or attempt 
or offer so to do, is punishable as if perjury. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1913. 

Upon any prosecution for procuring, offering or casting 
an illegal vote, the accused may give in evidence any fact 
tending to show that he honestly believed, upon good rea¬ 
son, that the vote complained of was a lawful one, and the 
jury may take such facts into consideration in determining 
whether the acts complained of were willfully done or not. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec 1927 
♦Applies only to special elections. tApplies to all elections. 




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24. Fraudulent Use of Fallot. 

No person shall fraudulently change or alter the ballot of 
any elector, or substitute one ballot for another, or fraud¬ 
ulently furnish any elector with a ballot containing more 
than the proper number of names, or shall intentionally 
practice any fraud upon any elector to induce him to de¬ 
posit a ballot as his vote and to have the same thrown out 
and not counted, or to have the same counted for a person 
or candidate other than the person or candidate for whom 
such elector intended to vote, or otherwise defraud him of 
his vote. Such act declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, cli. 410, secs. 1914, 1904. 

2.5. Fisorderly conduct at Registration or Polling 
Place. 

Impeding or hindering. Interfering with lawful pro¬ 
ceedings. Cause a breach of the peace. Disorderly vio¬ 
lence or threats of. Such acts declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1917. 

20. Contempt of Inspector’s A uthority. 

Disobeying any lawful command of inspector or of the 
board, given in the execution of his or their duty. 

Such act declared a misdemeauor. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1916. 

Inspectors may cause person so offending to be arrested. 

Laws 1894, ch. 275, sec. 16. 

27. Interfering with Election Officers, 

Such action declared a misdemeanor. 

Certain acts declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1903, 1904, 1918. 

28. Tampering with Contents of Fallot Fox. 

Such act declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1908. 





29 . False Voting . 

Falsely impersonating another and voting or attempting 
to vote ; voting more than once ; voting without lawful 
rights ; voting in more than one district ; or do any unlaw¬ 
ful act to secure a right or opportunity to vote ; or prevent 
or hinder, or attempt to prevent or hinder any qualified 
voter from freely exercising the right of suffrage; or in¬ 
duce, or attempt to induce, any such voter to refuse to ex¬ 
ercise any such right; or induce, or attempt to induce, any 
officer of election to receive a fraudulent vote. Such acts 
declared a felony. Laws 1882, cb. 410, sec- 1904. 

Making a false poll-list or inserting therein a false state¬ 
ment. Such acts declared a felony. 

Excluding a vote duly tendered, knowing the person of- 
ering the same is lawfully entitled to vote. 

Omitting to challenge an unchallenged voter whom the 
inspector knows or suspects not to be entitled to vote. 

Keceiving a vote from a duly challenged voter, without 
exacting the required oath. 

Such acts declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1905, 1906. 

Making a false canvass; signing a false return or state¬ 
ment, knowing the same to be false; defacing, destroying, 
or concealing records. Such acts declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1907, 1910. 

Willful or special neglect of duty, or being guilty of 
corrupt or fraudulent conduct, in connection with official 
duties. Such acts declared a felony. 

Law r s 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1909, 1919. 

Inspectors and poll clerks must not act without a ma¬ 
jority of inspectors are present. Applies to both registra¬ 
tion and voting. 

Such act declared a misdemeanor. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1921. 











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Absence of an inspector from duty without urgent ne¬ 
cessity, so that less than a majority is present. 

Such act declared a misdemeanor. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1921. 

Keeping ballots behind the boxes, or within the polling 
place, or permitting others to do so, for electioneering pur¬ 
poses, or engaging in any political discussion. 

Such acts declared a misdemeanor. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1923. 

General Criminal Provision of Law : 

Every act which by law is made criminal when commit¬ 
ted with reference to the election of a candidate, is equally 
criminal as to the determination of a question to be decided 
by votes cast at an election. Irregularities in noticing, 
convening, holding or conducting an election constitute no 
defense. Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1925, 1926. 

Destroying records by persons other than the proper 
custodians thereof ; advising, procuring or abetting the 
commission of such acts by others. Such acts declared a 
felony. Laws 1882, ch, 410, sec. 1911. 

Stealing, breaking or destroying ballot boxes; fraudu¬ 
lently concealing, secreting or removing ballot boxes; 
altering, defacing, injuring, concealing or destroying un¬ 
counted deposited ballots, poll lists, reports, returns, cer¬ 
tificates, etc., by any person. 

Such acts declared a felony. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1920. 

30. An Employed Person is Entitled to Two 
Hours’ Time in ivhich to Vote . 

Any person entitled to vote at a general election held 
within this state, shall, on the day of such election, be en¬ 
titled to absent himself from any service or employment in 
which he is then engaged or employed, for a period of two 
hours, while the polls of such election are open. If such 
yoter shall notify his employer, before the day of such 


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election, of such intended absence, and if thereupon 
two consecutive hours for such absence shall be designated 
by the employer, and such absence shall be during such 
designated hours, or if the employer, upon the day of such 
notice, makes no designation, and such absence shall be 
during any two consecutive hours while such polls are 
open, no deduction shall be made from the usual salary or 
wages of such voter, and no other penalty shall be imposed 
upon him by his employer, by reason of such absence. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 113. 

31 . Payment of Election Expenses, 

All expenses of an election and the compensation of 
election officers shall be a charge upon the city. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 17. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 


Electioneering In and About the Polls. 


No person shall, while the polls are open at any polling 
place, do any electioneering within such polling place or 
within 100 feet thereof. 

Penal code, sec. 41 K. 

See foot note, page 67. 

See paragraph 56 hereof 








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Nominations of Candidates, 


32. Nominations of candidates may be made by 
a convention, a primary, or by a duly authorized commit- 
lee of such convention or primary, of any political party 
or other nominating body which at the last general election 
before the holding of such convention or primary, polled 
ten thousand votes in the state, or one per cent, of the en¬ 
tire votes cast in the district thereof for which said conven¬ 
tion or primary is lit Id. 

A certificate under oath, of said nominations shall be 
made, and contain the title of the office for which each 
person is nominated, the name and residence of each per¬ 
son, with street and number, and place of business, if any. 
Also, in not more than five words , the name of the party 
which the convention, primary or committee represents. 
It must be signed by the presiding officer and a secretary 
of such convention or primary, or, if made by a commit¬ 
tee, by a majority of the members thereof, who shall add 
to their signatures tluir respective places of residence. The 
officer administering such oath shall so certify, and attach 
his certificate to the certificate of nomination. 

Party nominations made by state conventions may have 
some simple device or emblem to designate the political 
party, which may be shown upon a certificate and filed 
with the secretary of state. 

33. Independent nominations {see next para¬ 
graph) may also select a device or emblem, and so file it, 
and if no state nominations are made, may select a local 
emblem or device and file it where the certificate of nomi¬ 
nations are filed. No coat of arms, seal of state or United 
States, national flag, or religious emblem or symbol, nor 
portrait of any person shall be chosen as such device or 
emblem. 



Such selected device or emblem may be printed upon 
election ballots. 

If no device or emblem, or party name, be selected, the 
secretary of state, or public officer with whom certificate is 
filed, is to select. Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 56. 

34. Independent, Nominations. 

Three thousand or more voters of the state may nomi¬ 
nate candidates for offices to be filled by voters of the en¬ 
tire state. 

Five hundred or more voters of a county or city (or a 
portion of a state greater than a county, except an assem¬ 
bly district composed of more than one county) may nomi¬ 
nate candidates for offices to be filled by the voters of such 
county, city or portion of the state. 

Two hundred and fifty or more voters of an assembly or 
school commissioner district may nominate candidates for 
offices to be filled by the voters of such district. 

Twenty five or more voters of a ward * * * may nomi¬ 
nate candidates for offices to be filled by the voters of 
such * * * ward. 

If the nomination is for an office to be filled by the voters 
of the city and county of New York * * * not less than 
six hundred voters shall make such nomination. 

If the nomination is for an office to be filled wholly or 
in part by the voters of only a portion of the city and 
county of New York * * * not less than two hundred 
and fifty voters shall make such nomination. 

A certificate (similar to that required by the preceding 
paragraph) is to be made and filed. Laws 1895, ch. 810, 
sec. 1. 

35. Place of Filing Certificate . 

Of officers of the entire state, or district greater than a 
county, with the secretary of state. 

Of offices to b^ filled by the whole or a portion of the voters, 




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the city of New York, with the board of police commis¬ 
sioners of such city. 

Certificates are to be opened to public inspection; candi¬ 
dates’ names and party emblems are to be recorded. 

Declinations of nominations are to be recorded. 

Laws 1882, ch. 680, sec. 58. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

36. Time of Filing Certificates. 

If with secretary of state, if party nominations, at least 
thirty and not more than forty days before election. If in* 
dependent nominations, at least twenty and not more than 
forty days before election. 

If with the board of police commissioners, if party 
nominations, at least twenty-five and not more than thirty- 
five days before election. If independent nominations, at 
least fifteen and not more than thirty days before 
election. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 59. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

37. Secretary of State to notify proper officers of 
such certificates and emblems as may have been filed with 
him. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 60. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

38. The Board of Police Commistioners to 
publish a list of all candidates at least six days before 
election. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 61. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

39. Nominations may he declined . 

If a party nomination, at least fourteen days before an 
election. 

If an independent nomination, at least twelve days be¬ 
fore election. 


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The person declining must notify the officer with whom 
the original certificate of his nomination is filed, by a writ¬ 
ing signed by him and duly acknowledged, that he de¬ 
clines the nomination. If nominated by more than one 
party a like written notice must be given in each case. 

The officer receiving such notice must forthwith inform 
the nominating committee by mail or otherwise of such 
declension; also, in a proper case, the several county 
clerks or board of police commissioners, or officers author¬ 
ized bylaw r to prepare official ballots for district affected 
by such declination. Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. 64. 

Amended Laws 1895, cli. 810, sec. 1. 

40. Object ion 8 to Nominations. 

A written objection may be made to any certificate of 
nomination by filing the same in the office where the cer¬ 
tificate is filed, and within three days after such filing. 

Notice thereof is to be given to each candidate affected 
by such objection, and a hearing shall be had thereon. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 65. 

41. Hearing Upon Such Objections . 

Any question with reference to the construction, validity 
or legality of any such certificate shall be determined in the 
first instance by the officer with whom such certificate is 
filed, wdio shall make his decision in writing. 

The supreme court, or any county judge, has summary 
jurisdiction to review such decision and make such order 
as justice may require, and may by an order designate a 
time and place for such hearing. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 56. 

42. Vacancies bg declension, death, or otherwise. 

The original nominators, or their committee, if one be 

designated with the nomination as filed, may in such case 
make a new nomination to fill vacancy so created, by filing 
a new certificate with the same emblem, at least ten days 
before election. Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 



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Registry of Voters. 


43. Rook* for Registry to be provided. 

Board of police to provide books, blanks and forms. 
Books to be capable of containing seven hundred names. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 184G, 18(55. 

44. Inspectors of Registry. 

To be appointed by board of police. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1859. 

Laws 1894, ch. 248, sec. 4. 

The appointing power to fill vacancies. 

Laws 1893, ch. 274, sec. 1853. 

Same political qualifications as inspectors of election. 

Laws 1894. ch. 348, sec. 4. 

45. j Duties of Inspectors of Registry. 

To meet at the time required by law ; organize as a 
board ; select a chairman ; receive applications for regis¬ 
tration from male residents of their district as then arc or 
on the day of election next following the day of making 
such application, would be entitled to vote therein, and 
who personally present themselves, and such only; remain 
in session on each day, from the hour of eight in the morn¬ 
ing until the hour of nine in the evening; and to each ap¬ 
plicant shall administer the oath or affirmation as required 
by law ; examine each applicant as to his qualifications as 
elector ; and, unless otherwise provided by law, immedi¬ 
ately, and in the presence of the applicant, enter in the 
register his answers. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1858. 

They shall keep their registers in the manner provided 
by law, and within forty-eight hours after adjournment 
file them as required by law, duly certifying to them. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1861, 1880. 



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Each day’s registration shall be ruled off, separately, so 
that no further entries may be made as of that date. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 18G2. 

List of each day’s registration is to be made by inspec¬ 
tors, certified to, and delivered to the captain of police of 
the precinct in which the election district is situated, who 
shall within twelve hours after the close of such day de¬ 
liver same to the supervisor of the City Record. 

Inspector liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for 
non-compliance. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1805. 

A registry of all challenges shall be accurately kept. 

Laws 1892, ch. G80, sec. 3G. 

43. Powers of Inspectors. 

Except where authority or action is given or specifically 
allowed to each inspector, the concurrences or assent of a 
majority is requisite. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1876. 


Inspectors of Election. 


Poll Clerks and Ballot Clerkt. 

47. The Board of Police have power to make all 
appointments, removals, transfers, and fill vacancies 
They shall annually, in the months of August and Sep¬ 
tember, appoint four inspectors of election, two poll clerks, 
and two ballot clerks for each election district. Not more 
than two inspectors, one poll clerk or one ballot clerk shall 
belong to the same political party or be of the same politi¬ 
cal faith and opinion in state and national issues. 

On or before August fifteenth in any year the chairman 
of the executive committee of the general committee of 
each, of the several political parties may make and file 







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with such board of police a list of persons qualified to act 
as inspectors, poll clerks and ballot clerks, and the appoint¬ 
ments shall be made from such lists, disqualified persons 
excepted. Such persons must be citizens of the United 
States and of the State, of good character and able to read, 
wiite and speak the English language understanding^; 
qualified voters of the city and not candidates for any office 
to be voted for by the electors of the election district for 
which they shall be appointed, but need not be a resident 
of the district in which he serves. 

Each one must, within twenty days from notice of ap¬ 
pointment, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of 
office. 

They shall hold office for one year, unless sooner re¬ 
moved for want of requisite qualifications or for cause; 
unless appointed to fill a vacancy the term shall be the un¬ 
expired term of his predecessor. They cannot be trans¬ 
ferred from one district to another after entering upon the 
performance of their duties. Laws 1894, ch. 348, sec. 4. 

Vacancies shall be filled by the original appointing 
power. Laws 1893, ch. 274, sec. 1853. 

Inspectors and poll clerks are deemed to be election dis¬ 
trict officers, and such inspectors and poll clerks respec¬ 
tively, or a majority of said inspectors, must be in constant 
attendance during the hours and times fixed for the dis¬ 
charge of their duties. Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1877. 

Every person so selected and appointed, must, on notice, 
appear before the chief of the bureau of elections and be 
examined, and if found qualified, shall, unless excused by 
reason of ill health or other good and sufficient cause, be 
bound to serve for the term of one year from the date of 
appointment. 

In case of neglect or refusal to appear, serve or act, he 
is liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars. 

Laws 1893, ch. 274, sec. 1855. 


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All meetings of the board of inspectors shall be public. 
Each member has power to preserve peace and good order 
at such meetinge and around the polls of an election, and 
to keep the access thereto open and unobstructed, and to 
enforce obedience to their lawful commands during their 
meetings. 

They may appoint one or more electors to assist in the 
performance of such duties; and if no sheriff, constable or 
peace officer be present, may depute any other person in 
writing to make a requisite arrest, except that they cannot 
order the arrest of an election officer. 

Laws 1894, ch. 275, sec. 6. 

Inspectors, poll clerks and ballot clerks are during their 
term of office exempt from military and jury duty. Their 
pay is six dollars per day for each day’s service at any reg¬ 
istration or revision of registration, and twelve dollars per 
day for each day’s services at any election. 

Laws 1893, ch. 274, sec. 1854. 

Any inspector of election, poll clerk, or other officer of 
elections (or any challenger duly appointed, or any person 
designated as provided by law to be present at the canvass 
of any ballots), shall at any time between the Tuesday five 
weeks preceding the day of any election, and ten days 
after the first official promulgation by the board of county 
canvassers of the canvass, declaration and certificate of any 
such election, have full power and authority to make a 
thorough and effective canvass of the election district for 
which he has been or was designated to act, and to make 
full inquiry respecting any and every male resident of any 
dwelling, building or other place of abode in such district, 
his age, term of residence and qualification as a voter, but 
such power shall cease upon his resignation or removal 
from office. 


Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1879. 




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OFFICIAL BALLOTS 

AND 

BALLOT BOXES. 


48. Boxes. 

There shall be but one ballot box at each polling place 
for receiving all ballots cast for candidates for office, which 
shall be marked “ box for general ballots.” 

Also boxes for “spoiled and returned ballots;” “de¬ 
tached ballot stubs,” and a box for “ constitutional amend¬ 
ments or other propositions or questions,” if any, which 
shall be marked “ box for questions submitted.” 

Laws 1892, ch. 080, sec. 13. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

49. Official ballots shall be provided at public ex¬ 
pense. Three ballots for each name registered shall be 
supplied. 

Laws 1892, ch. 080, sec. 80. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

50. Form of Ballot. 

Form of official ballots for candidates for office.—Every 
ballot intended for the use of electors, printed in accord¬ 
ance with the provisions of this act shall contain a party 
device for each party represented on the ticket, in accord¬ 
ance with the provisions of section fifty-six of this act. 
There shall be provided at each polling place at each elec¬ 
tion but one form of ballot for all the candidates for pub¬ 
lic office and every ballot shall contain the names of all the 
candidates whose nomination for any office specified in the 
ballot have been duly made, and not withdrawn in accord¬ 
ance herewith, together with the title of the office, 



FORM OF BALLOT. 


TO VOTE A STRAIGHT TICKET MAKE A CROSS (X) MARK WITHIN THE CIRCLE ABOVE ONE OF THE PARTY COLUMNS. 

TO VOTE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATE MAKE A CROSS (X) MARK IN THE SPACE BEFORE HIS NAME. 

TO VOTE FOR A PERSON NOT ON THE TICKET. WRITE THE NAME OF SUCH PERSON UNDER THE TITLE OF TIIE OFFICE IN THE COLUMN ON THE RIGHT 
AND MAKE A CROSS (X) MARK IN THE SPACE BEFORE THE NAME. 

ANY MARK OR ERASURE MADE ON THIS BALLOT EXCEPT AS ABO7E INDICATED MAKES THIS BALLOT VOID AND IT CANNOT BE COUNTED. 

USE ONLY A PENCIL HAVING BLACK LEAD. 






REPUBLICAN TICKET. ■DEMOCRATIC TICKET.IIPROHIBITION TICKET. 


For Secretary of State, 


For Comptroller, 


For State Treasurer, 


For Attorney General, 


For State Engineer and Surveyor! 


For State Senator, 


For Member of Assembly, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For County Clerk, 


For Register, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 
(Short Term,) 


For Secretary >f State, 


For Comptroller, 


For State Treisurer. 


For Attorney General, 


For State Engineer and Surveyors 


For State Senator, 


For Member of Assembly, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For County Clerk, 


For Register, 


For Justice of General -Sessions, 


For Justice of 'General Sessions, 
(Short Term,) 



For Secretary of State, 


For Comptroller, 


For State Treasurer. 


For Attorney General, 


For State Engineer and Surveyor 


For State Senator, 


For Member of Assembly, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
\ Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For County Clerk, 


For Register, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 
(Short Term,) 

j 




^>/n T*'* 

PEOPLE'S TICKET. 



For Secretary of State, 

For Comptroller, 


For State Treasurer. 


For Attorney General, 


For State Engineer and Surveyor 


For State Senator, 


For Member of Assembly, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For Justice of the Supreme 
Court, 


For County Clerk, 


For Register, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 


For Justice of General Sessions, 
(Short Term,) 




















































































































































.■)' :>{'■* ■ ri dj / - 

/ci '. >i«y * ■ ; 

•fas / / 1 

I!’) / : /, AT/ > /. 

: . ; . 




candidates whose nomination for any ollice specified in the 
ballot have been duly made, and not withdrawn in accord¬ 
ance herewith, together with the title of the office, 

















arranged in tiekets or lists under the respective party or 
political or other designation certified. In elections for presi¬ 
dential electors the names of the candidates for president 
and vice-president shall be placed on the ticket immedi¬ 
ately following the name of the party and preceding the 
names of the electors. The arrangement of the ballot shall 
in general, conform as nearly as practicable to the plan 
hereinafter given. The tickets or lists of candidates of the 
various parties shall be printed in parallel columns headed 
by the chosen devices, and the party name or other desig¬ 
nation in such order as the secretary of state may direct, 
precedence, however, being given to the party which polled 
the highest number of votes for the head of the ticket in 
the next preceding general election, and so on. The num¬ 
ber of columns shall exceed by one the number of sets of 
candidates to be voted for at the polling place for which 
the ballot is provided, nominated by different certificates 
of nomination, except as otherwise provided in this sec¬ 
tion. In the column on the right-hand side of each ballot 
shall be printed the titles of all of the officers for which 
the electors at the polling place for which the ballot is pro¬ 
vided may lawfully vote, and underneath the title of each 
office shall be left a blank space in which the voter may 
write the name of any candidate or candidates therefor 
whose names are not printed upon the ballot as candidates 
for that office, and in the space above the titles of the of¬ 
fices, shall be printed in brevier capital letters, “ The voter 
may write in the column below, under the title of the of¬ 
fice, the name of any person whose name is not printed on 
the ballot, for whom he desires to vote.” No ticket or list 
of candidates shall be printed under the name of any party 
containing more candidates for any office than are to be 
elected. The ballot shall be so printed as to give each 
elector a clear opportunity to designate by a cross (X) 
mark in a large blank circular space three-quarters of an 


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inch in diameter below the device, and above the name ol 
the party at the head of the ticket or list of candidates, his 
choice of a party ticket and desire to vote for each and 
every candidate thereon, except as in the cases hereafter 
provided for in this section; and by a cross (X) mark in a 
blank inclosed space on the left of and before the name of 
each candidate, his choice of particular candidates. The 
ballot shall be printed on the same leaf with a stub and sep¬ 
arated therefrom by a perforated line. The part above the 
perforated line, designated as the stub, shall extend the en¬ 
tire width of the ballot, and shall be two inches from the 
perforated line to the top thereof. Upon the face of such 
stub shall be printed in brevier capital letters, “ To vote a 
straight ticket make a cross (X) mark within the circle 
above one of the party columns. To vote for an individ¬ 
ual make a cross (X) mark in the space before his name. 
To vote for a person not on the ticket, write the name of 
such person under the title of the office in the column on 
the right, and make a cross (X) mark in the space before 
the name. Any mark or erasure made on this 
ballot, except as above indicated, makes this 
ballot void, and it can not be counted. Use only 
a pencil having black lead .” On the back of the 
stub and at the left of the center thereof shall be printed 
the words “consecutive number.” (Below the words, the 
consecutive number of the ballot shall be printed, begin¬ 
ning with “ 1 ” and increasing in regular numerical order.) 
On the back of the ballot below the stub, and immediately 
at the left of the center of the ballot shall be piinted in 
great primer Roman condensed capitals the words, “offi¬ 
cial ballot for,” and after the word “ for” shall follow the 
designation of the polling place for which the ballot is pre¬ 
pared, the date of the election, and a fac simile of the sig¬ 
nature of the officer who has caused the ballots to be print¬ 
ed. * * * All ballots shall be printed on the best 


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quality number two book paper, in black ink, and with 
the exception of the heading, which shall be in display, in 
brevier type; the name or designation of the office in bre¬ 
vier lower case, and the name of the candidate therefor in 
brevier capital letters, with a space of at least one-fifth of 
an inch following each name, except that in the case of 
presidential electors one-eighth shall be sufficient. The 
name of each candidate shall be printed in a space defined 
by ruled lines, and with a blank oblong sjmee on its left in¬ 
closed by heavy dark lines. The heading of each party 
ticket, including the name of the party, the device above 
and the large circle between the device and such name, 
shall be separated from the rest of the ticket by a heavy 
line, and the circle above the name of the party, in which 
the voter is to place the cross mark if he desires to vote the 
straight ticket, shall be defined by heavier lines than the 
lines defining the blank spaces before the names of candi¬ 
dates, and such circle shall be surrounded by the follow¬ 
ing p.inted in heavy-faced nonpareil type: “For a straight 
ticket mark within this circle;” provided, however, that in 
the case of nominations provided for in section fifty-seven 
of this act designated as “independent nominations,” the 
ballot shall be so arranged that at the right of the last col¬ 
umn for nominations designated in section fifty-six as 
“ party nominations,” the several tickets of the names of 
the candidates independently nominated may be printed in 
one or more columns according to the space required, hav¬ 
ing above each of the tickets the political or other name se¬ 
lected to designate such independent nominations and the 
device or emblem to represent and distinguish the candi¬ 
dates of the several independent bodies making such nomi¬ 
nations; but in such columns for independent nominations 
the circle heretofore provided for in this section shall be 
omitted, and at the top of the column and above the first 
emblem in each of such columns for “ independent nomi- 





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nations ” shall he printed in brevier capital letters the' 
words “ independent nominations.” Each party ticket 
shall be separated from other party tickets and bordered on 
either side by a heavy border or a broad solid line at least 
one eighth of an inch wide and the edge of the ballot on 
either side trimmed off up to the border or solid line de¬ 
scribed. All of the official ballots of the same sort pre¬ 
pared by any officer or board for the same polling place 
shall be of precisely the same size, arrangement, quality 
and tint of paper and kind of type, and shall be printed 
with black ink of the same tint, so that when the stub 
numbered as aforesaid shall be detached therefrom it shall 
be impossible to distinguish any one of the ballots from 
the other ballots of the same sort, and the names of all 
candidates for the same office shall be printed in type of 
the same size and character. If two or more officers are 
to be elected to the same office for different terms, the 
term for which each is nominated shall be printed upon 
the ballot as a part of the title of the office. If at a general 
election in any congressional district one representative in 
congress is to be elected for a full term and another to fill 
a vacancy, the ballots containing the names of the candi¬ 
dates shall as a part of the title of the office designate the 
term or vacancy for, or to fill which the candidates are 
severally nominated. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 81. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. • 

(Section 82 of L. 1892, ch. 680, is repealed by above law 
of 1895.) 

Official ballots, sample ballots, cards of instruction and 
distance markers for polling places shall be provided by 
the board of police commissioners. 

Sample ballots and fac similes of the official ballot shall 
be open to public inspection, viz., the samples five days, 
and the fac similes four days before the election. 




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Every voter may apply for and shall be entitled to re¬ 
ceive a sample ballot of the kind to be voted in his district. 

Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. 86. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

51. Sample Ballots and Instruction Cards. 

Each polling place shall be provided with sample ballots 
equal to twenty-five per cent, of the official ballots provid¬ 
ed for. They shall be precisely like the official ballot 
except as to color, and unnumbered. 

Every voter may require one to be given him and may 
depart with the same before he offers his official ballots. 

Twelve instruction cards printed in English and twelve 
printed in each of such other languages as the officials pro¬ 
viding them may deem necessary shall be provided for 
each polling place. They shall contain full instructions 
for the guidance of voters, and a copy of the penal code 
relating to crimes against the elective franchise. One card 
of each language shall be posted in each booth, and at 
least three of each language in or about the polling place. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, secs. 84, 100. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

Ballots, (instruction cards and distance markers) shall be 
delivered in sealed packages, arranged in numerical order, 
beginning with number one, by the board of police to the 
inspectors or presiding officer of each election district, 
taking a receipt therefor. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 87. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

Errors in printing ballots may be corrected, if patent, by 
the board of police, if they can do so without interfering 
with the timely distribution of the ballots. Such errors 
may by an application to the supreme court or a justice 
thereof be corrected. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 88. 







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52. Voting Booths, 

Each polling place shall be provided with voting booths 
not less than one for every fifty voters in the district. 
They shall be kept clearly lighted and furnished with 
requisite supplies. 

Laws 1892, ch. 080, sec. 14. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

53. Guard Bails. 

Each polling place shall be protected by guard rails 
placed six feet from the ballot boxes and booths. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 14. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 


Of the Election, 

54. Opening the Polls . 

The inspectors of election, poll clerks and ballot clerks 
of each election district, shall meet at the time duly ap¬ 
pointed for opening the polls of each election for which 
official ballots are required to be provided, at the polling 
place therein, within the space inclosed by the guard rail, 
for the purpose of conducting such election. Within the 
meaning of this article, the territory in which the voters 
entitled to vote at any such polling place reside, shall be 
deemed an election district; the presiding officers of such 
election at such polling place shall be deemed inspectors 
of election of such district, and any inspector or other offi¬ 
cer duly designated to distribute official ballots to voters 
thereof shall be deemed a ballot clerk thereof. The in¬ 
spectors of election shall then and there have the ballot 
boxes required by law for the reception of ballots to be 
voted thereat; the sealed packages of official ballots, sam¬ 
ple ballots, the box for the reception of spoiled ballots and 
for the stubs of voted and spoiled ballots, and instruction 



cards and distance markers required to be delivered to 
them for such election; and if it be an election at which 
registered voters only can vote, the register of such voters, 
and the certified copies thereof, required to be made and 
kept therefor. Each such poll clerk shall then and there 
have the book required for keeping the poll-list of such 
election. The inspectors shall thereupon open the sealed 
packages of instruction cards, and cause them to be posted 
conspicuously, at least one, and if printed in different lan¬ 
guages, at least one of each language, in each of the voting 
booths of each polling place, and at least three of each 
language in which they are printed in or about the polling 
place; shall open the sealed packages of official ballots and 
sample ballots and place them in charge of the ballot 
clerks, and shall cause the distance markers to be properly 
placed. They shall also, before any ballots are cast, un¬ 
lock the ballot boxes, see that they are empty, allow the 
watchers present to examine them, and lock them up 
again while empty, in such manner that the watchers 
present and persons just outside the guard rail can see that 
such boxes are empty when they are relocked. The in¬ 
struction cards, so posted, and the distance markers shall 
not be taken down, tom or defaced during such election. 
The ballot clerks, with the official and sample ballots, the 
inspectors, with such boxes and registry lists, and the poll 
clerks, with their poll-list books, shall be stationed as near 
each other as practicable within such inclosed space. One 
of the inspectors shall then make proclamation that the 
polls of the election arc opened, and of the time o’clock in 
the afternoon when the polls will be closed. 

Laws 1892, cli. G80, sec. 100. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

55. Who may Pass Within the Guard Hail. 

General Regulations—From the time of such meeting 
for the purpose of conducting such election, until the an- 






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nouncement of the result of the 'canvass of the votes cast 
thereat and the signing of the certificate thereof by the 
inspectors, such boxes and all the official ballots, shall be 
kept within the guard rail. No person shall be admitted 
within the guard rail during such period, except such in¬ 
spectors, poll clerks, ballot clerks, duly authorized watch¬ 
ers, persons admitted by the inspectors to preserve order or 
enforce the law, persons duly admitted for the purpose of 
voting *and to assist voters and persons lawfully designated 
by candidates to be present at the canvass of the votes. 
After such boxes are so relocked, while empty at the 
opening of the polls, they shall not be unlocked or opened 
until the closing of the polls of such election, and, except 
as authorized by law, no ballots or other matter shall be 
placed in them after they are so relocked and before the 
announcement of the results of such canvass and the sign¬ 
ing of such certificate. Amended Laws 1895, cb. 810, sec. 1. 

56. Watchers, Challengers, Electioneering . 

Each political party or independent body duly filing cer¬ 
tificates of nominations of candidates for offices to be filled 
at any such election, may, by writing signed by the com¬ 
mittee or other similar representative of such political 
party or independent body or by the chairman thereof, and 
delivered to one of the inspectors of election, appoint not 
more than two watchers to attend each polling place there¬ 
of. No such committee or representatives for a city, 
county, town or ward shall appoint watchers for any poll¬ 
ing place outside such city, couuty, town or ward. Such 
watchers may be present at such polling place, and within 

the guaid rail, from at least fifteen minutes before the un¬ 
locking and examination of any ballot box at the opening 
of the polls of such election until after the announcement 
of the result of the canvass of the votes cast thereat, and 
the signing of the certificate thereof by the inspectors. A 
reasonable number of challengers, at least one person of 

* So in original. 


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each such party, or independent body, shall be permitted 
to remain just outside the guard rail of each polling place, 
and where they can plainly see what is done within such 
rail outside the voting booths, from the opening to the close 
of the polls thereat. No person shall, while the polls are 
open at any polling place, do any electioneering within 
such polling place, or within one hundred feet therefrom in 
any public street or room, or in a public manner. The 
officers authorized by law to designate the polling places in 
any town or city shall cause to be placed at a distance of 
one hundred feet from each polling place the necessary 
visible marks or barriers designated herein as “distauce 
markers” to prevent electioneering or loitering within such 
distance. Amended Laws, 1895, ch. 810, sec 1. 

57. Each Voter to Receive Official Ballots. 

While the polls of such election are open, the voters en¬ 
titled to vote and who have not previously voted thereat, 
may enter within the guard rail of the polling place of 
such election, for the purpose of voting, in such order that 
there shall not at any time be within such guard rail more 
than twice as many voters as there are voting booths there- 
! at, besides the persons lawfully within such guard rail for 
other purposes than voting. Voters shall enter within the 
guard rail through the entrance provided for that purpose. 
Upon entering the voter shall forthwith proceed to the 
ballot clerks, and give his name, and, if in a city, or village 
of live thousand inhabitants or over, his residence by street 
and number, or if it have no street number a brief descrip¬ 
tion of the locality thereof, and if required by the inspec¬ 
tors thereat, shall state whether he is over or under twenty- 

one years of age. One of the ballot clerks shall thereupon 
announce the name and residence of the voter in a loud 
and distinct tone of voice; if such voter is entitled to vote 
thereat, and is not challenged, or if challenged and the 
challenge be decided in his favor, one of the ballot clerks 
shall then deliver to the voter one official ballot or a set of 








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official ballots folded in the proper manner for voting, 
which is first crosswise by bringing the bottom of each 
ballot up to the perforated line, and then folding both 
sides to the center, or towards the center, in such manner 
that when folded the face of each ballot shall be concealed, 
and the printed number on the stub and the indorsement 
on the back of the ballot shall be visible, so the stub can 
be removed without removing any other part of the ballot, 
and without exposing any part of the face of the ballot 
below the stub, and so that when folded the ballot shall 
not be more than four inches wide. No person other than 
an inspector or ballot clerk shall deliver to any voter with¬ 
in such guard rail any ballot, and they shall deliver only 
such as the voter is legally entitled to vote, and also the 
sample ballot when the same is asked for. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 103. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

58. Voters name must be found on three of the 
registers before he can receive his ballots. 

The inspectors of election in each election district of the 
city and county of New York shall, on the day of any 
election therein, have with them at the polling-place in said 
district the registers provided for in this chapter. They 
shall each make use of one of said registers for guidance on 
said day, and no vote shall be received from any person 
whose name shall not be found by at least three of them to 
be upon at least three of the said registers as a qualified 
voter. The chairman of said inspectors in each election 
district shall, if present, and if absent, then one of the other 
inspectors shall, upon any person offering to vote, announce 
in a loud, clear, and distinct manner the name of such 
person, and no ballots shall be received by either of the in¬ 
spectors, or deposited in any of the ballot-boxes until at 
least three of the said inspectors shall, as hereinbefore pro¬ 
vided, have examined and found the name and residence 


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of such person and have declared the same, and that such 
person is entered as a qualified voter; when, if the vote of 
said person is received, at least three of the inspectors shall 
'write in the appropriate column bearing the heading 
“ voted,” and opposite to the name and residence of such 
person the word “ yes.” It shall be the duty of each of the 
inspectors to note on the register in his possession, in a 
suitable and separate part thereof, the name and residence 
of each and every person, if any, whose vote shall be re¬ 
ceived in contravention of the provisions of this section, 
and the name of the inspector or inspectors, if any, who 
shall so receive or deposit in the ballot-boxes, or either of 
them, any such vote; and it shall further be the duty of 
each of the inspectors, immediately on the close of the polls 
on the day of election, to compare the said registers as kept 
by them, as herein provided, and attach to them a certifi¬ 
cate in writing that the same are correctly checked, and 
within twenty-four hours after the completion of the can¬ 
vass of the votes cast in the election district in wdiich they 
served, to leave said registers at the office of the chief of 
the bureau of elections, whose duty it shall be to file and 
preserve the same, as provided in this chapter. And in no 
election district in the said city and county shall any 
inspector, who has custody or charge of either of the regis¬ 
ters in this chapter provided for, ever permit said register 
to leave his possession from the time of receiving custody 
of the same, as provided in this chapter, save in the event 
of his resignation or removal, and the appointment as pro. 
vided in this chapter of his successor, when he shall 
promptly surrender and turn over the same to him. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. I860. 

59. How to prepare the ballot. 

On receiving his ballot the elector shall forthwith, and 
without leaving the inclosed space, retire alone to one o 
the voting booths, and without undue delay, unfold and 






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mark his ballot as hereafter described. No elector shall be 
allowed to occupy a booth already occupied by another, or 
to occupy a booth more than five minutes in case all the 
booths are in use and electors waiting to occupy the same, 
or to speak or to converse with anyone, except as herein 
provided, while within the guard rail. It shall not be laic 
ful to make any mark upon the official ballot other than the 
cross ( X ) mark with a pencil, having black lead 9 
as hereafter provided, or to mark, deface or tear a ballot, 
in any manner, for the purpose of identifying the same ; or 
to erase any printed device, figure or word therefrom, or to 
write anything thereon other than the name of a person for 
whom the voter desires to vote, which is not printed on the 
ballot, and that only in the blank column under the proper 
title of the office; and any ballot from wffiich there shall 
have been erased any device, figure or word, or upon which 
there shall be written any word or words other than the 
name of a candidate, as above provided, shall be wholly 
void and shall not be counted. All marks upon the 
ballot must be made by pencil having black 
lead. If an elector soil or deface a ballot so that it can¬ 
not be used, he may successively obtain others, one at a 
time, not exceeding in all three, upon returning each ballot 
so soiled or defaced, to the ballot clerks, which ballot so 
returned shall be immediately detached from the stub by 
one of the ballot clerks and entry of such fact made on the 
poll-list opposite the voter’s name and the ballot placed in 
the box for detached stubs. The elector shall observe the 
following rules in marking his ballots: 

1. If the elector desire to vote a straight ticket, or in 
other words for each and every candidate of one party for 
whatever office nominated, he shall either, 

(a) Make a cross (X) mark in the circular space below 
the device and above the name of the party at the head of 
the ticket; or, 


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(b) Make a cross (X) mark on the left of and opposite 
the name of each and every candidate of such party in 
the blank space provided therefor. 

2. If the elector desire to vote a mixed ticket, or in other 
words, for candidates of different parties, he shall either, 

(a) Omit making a cross (X) in the circular space above 
the name of any party, and make a cross (X) mark in the 
blank space before the name of each candidate for whom 
he desires to vote on whatever ticket lie may be; or, 

(b) Make a cross (X) mark in the circular space above 
the name of a party, some of whose candidates he desires 
to vote for, and then make a cross (X) mark before the 
name of any candidate of any other party for whom he may 
desire to vote; in which case, the cross (X) mark in the 
circular space above the name of a party will cast the 
elector’s vote for every candidate on the ticket of such 
party, except for offices for which candidates are marked 
on other party tickets and the cross (X) marks before the 
name of such candidates will cast the elector’s vote for 
them; provided, that where two or more persons for the 
same office are to be voted for in any election district, as 
two or more representatives in congress or other officers, 
and the names of several candidates therefor appear on any 
party ticket grouped under the office for which all are 
running, the elector who has marked a ticket in the circu¬ 
lar space at its head, and marked one or more of a group 
of candidates for such office on another ticket or tickets, 
must in addition to marking the ticket in the circular 
space at its head, also make a cross (X) mark before 
each one of the group of candidates for such office for 
whom he desires to vote on the ticket thus marked; and, 
provided further, if an elector who has thus marked a 
party ticket in the circular space at the head thereof and 
marked one or more candidates on another ticket or tickets 
for an office for which there are more than one candidate 






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on bis own party ticket, fail or neglect to indicate by indi¬ 
vidual marks as aforesaid, which of the several candidates 
for the same office on his own party ticket he desires to 
vote for, then and in such event, the vote shall be counted 
only for the candidate or candidates for that office that 
have the distinguishing mark before his or their names. 
If, in marking either a straight or mixed ticket as above 
defined, a cross (X) mark is made in the circular space 
above the name of a party at the head of the ticket, and 
also one or more cross (X) marks made before the name or 
names of candidates on the same ticket for offices for which 
candidates on other party tickets are not individually 
marked, such marks before the names of candidates on the 
ticket so marked, shall be treated as surplusage and 
ignored, and the ballot be counted for all the candidates 
on the ticket thus marked for offices for which no candi' 
dates on other tickets are marked; but this provision is 
subject to the exception in the proviso in the last para¬ 
graph, where two or more persons for the same office are 
grouped on party tickets. In the case of a question sub' 
mitted, the elector shall make a cross (X) mark in the 
blank space on the right of and after the answer which he 
desires to give. If the elector desires to vote for any per¬ 
son whose name does not appear on the ticket, he can sub¬ 
stitute the name by writing it ivith 'pencil having 
black lead in the proper place, in the blank column on 
the right of the ballot, and making a cross (X) mark in the 
blank space at the left of the name so written. If the 
elector mark more names than there are persons to be 
elected to an office, or if for any reason, it is impossible to 
determine the voter’s choice for an office to be filled, his 
ballot shall not be counted for such office. No ballot shall 
be rejected for any technical error which does not make it 
impossible to determine the voter’s choice. If there 
should be no nomination for a particular office by any 


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particular party, or if by inadvertence, or otherwise, tlie 
name of a candidate regularly nominated by such party 
should be omitted from the ballot, and the elector desires 
to vote for some one to fill such office, he may do so by 
writing the name of the person for whom he desires to 
vote in the space underneath the heading or designation of 
such office in the blank column on right of the ballot, and 
making a cross (X) mark before the name so written. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 104. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

60. Manner • of Voting . 

When the ballot or ballots which a voter has received 
shall be prepared as provided in section one hundred and 
four of this act, he shall leave the voting booth with his 
ballot folded so as to conceal the face of the ballot, but 
show the indorsement and fac simile of the signature of the 
official on the back thereof and keeping the same so folded 
shall proceed at once to the inspector in charge of the 
ballot box and shall offer the same to such inspector. 
Such inspector shall announce the name of the voter and 
the printed number on the stub of the official ballot so 
delivered to him, in a loud and distinct tone of voice. If 
such voter be entitled then and there to vote and be not 
challenged, or if challenged, the challenge be decided in 
his favor, and if his ballot or ballots are properly folded 
and have no marks or tear visible on the outside thereof, 
except the printed number on the stub and the printed in¬ 
dorsement on the back and if such printed number is the 
same as that entered on the poll-lists as the number on the 
stub or stubs of the official ballot or set of such ballots last 
delivered to him by the ballot clerks, such inspector shall 
receive such ballot or ballots, and after removing the stub 
or stubs therefrom, in plain view of the voter, and without 
removing any other part of the ballot and without un¬ 
folding the ballot or in any way exposing any part of the 




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face thereof below the stub, shall deposit each ballot iu the 
proper ballot box for the reception of voted ballots; the 
stubs shall be deposited in the box for detached ballot 
stubs. Upon voting, such voter shall then forthwith pass 
outside the guard rail, through the exit provided for such 
purpose, unless he be one of the persons authorized to re¬ 
main within the guard rail for other purposes than voting. 
No official ballots however folded shall be unfolded out¬ 
side of the voting booths. Every elector who does not 
vote a ballot delivered to him by the ballot officer shall, 
before passing outside of the guard rail, return such ballot 
to such officer, and he shall not again return within the 
guard rail. Any voter who shall, at the time of registra¬ 
tion, have made oath of physical disability or illiteracy as 
prescribed by the second subdivision of section thirty-two 
of this act: or, any voter who, being duly registered, in 
an election district where personal registration of all voters 
is required by law shall state under oath to the inspectors 
of election on the day of election that by reason of some 
accident, the time and place of which he must specify, or 
of disease, the nature of which he must also specify, he 
has since the day upon which he registered lost the use of 
both hands, or become totally blind, or so crippled that he 
can not enter the voting booth and prepare his ballot with¬ 
out assistance; or any voter in an election district who is 
not required by law, to personally register, who is unable 
to write by reason of illiteracy or is physically disabled in 
one or more ways described in the second subdivision of 
section thirty-two of this act, and who shall make the 
statement under oath to the inspectors, in the form re¬ 
quired in said subdivision two of section thirty-two of this 
act, may choose two of the election officers, both of whom 
shall not be of the same political faith, to enter the booth 
with him, to assist him in preparing his ballots, and such 
election officers assisting a voter shall not in any manner 


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request or seek to persuade or induce any sucli voter to 
vote any particular ticket or for any particular candidate, 
and shall not keep or make any memoranda or entry of 
anything occurring within such booth; and shall not 
directly or indirectly, reveal to any other person the name 
of any candidate voted for by such voter, or which ticket 
he has voted, except they be called upon to testify in a 
judicial proceeding for a violation of this act, and each 
election officer before opening the polls for the election 
shall make oath that he “will not in any manner request, 
or seek to persuade, or induce any voter to vote any par¬ 
ticular ticket or for any particular candidate, and that he 
will not keep or make, any memoranda, or entry of any¬ 
thing occurring within the booth, and that he will not, 
directly or indirectly, reveal to any person the name of any 
candidate voted for by any voter, or which ticket he has 
voted, or anything occurring within the voting booth, ex¬ 
cept he be called upon to testify in a judicial proceeding 
for a violation of the election law,” and any yiolation of 
this provision shall be a felony punishable upon conviction 
by imprisonment in a State prison for not less than two or 
more than ten years. No voter shall otherwise ask or re¬ 
ceive the assistance of any person within the polling place 
in the preparation of his ballot or divulge to any one with¬ 
in the polling place the name of any candidate for whom 
he intends to vote or has voted.* No ballot without the 
official indorsement shall be allowed to be deposited in the 
ballot box except as provided by section eighty-nine of the 
election law and one hundred and nine of this act, and 
none but ballots provided in accordance with the pro¬ 
visions of this act shall be counted. No official ballot 
folded shall be unfolded outside the voting booth. No 
person to whom any official ballots shall be delivered shall 
leave the space within the guard rail until he shall deliver 
* For Sub-div. 2, sec. 32. See page 15. 





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back all such ballots either to the inspectors, or to the 
ballot clerks. When a person shall have received an 
official ballot from the ballot clerks, as hereinbefore pro¬ 
vided, he shall be deemed to have commenced the act of 
voting, and if, after receiving such official ballot, he shall 
leave the space inclosed by the guard rail before the de¬ 
posit of his ballot in the ballot box as hereinbefore pro¬ 
vided, he shall not be entitled to pass again within the 
guard rail for the purpose of voting or to receive any 
further ballots. 

Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. 105. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

61. When Unofficial Ballots may he Voted. 

If, for any cause, the official ballots shall not be pro¬ 
vided as required by law at any polling place, upon the 
opening of the polls of an election thereat, or if the supply 
of official ballots shall be exhausted before the polls are 
closed, unofficial ballots, printed or written, made as 
nearly as practicable in the form of the official ballots, may 
be used. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 109. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

62. General Duties of Ballot Clerks. 

In addition to the duties hereinbefore enjoined upon 
them, the ballot clerks shall deliver official ballots to the 
voters in such order that the numerical order of the num¬ 
bers printed on the stubs of the ballots so delivered, shall 
be the same as the order of the successive deliveries thereof 
to the voters, the ballot numbered one on the stubs being 
first delivered and so on. If, in addition to the official 
ballots containing the printed names of candidates for 
public office, there shall be a second official ballot contain¬ 
ing a proposed constitutional amendment or other pro¬ 
position or question, the ballots shall be delivered to the 
voters in such order that the number upon the stubs of all 


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ballots delivered to the same voter at the same time shall 
correspond. If, in a case where more than one ballot is to 
be voted, the voter shall spoil one ballot of either sort, and 
shall be entitled to receive a new ballot under the pro¬ 
visions of this act, he shall return both the spoiled ballot 
and the other ballots bearing the same number to the 
ballot clerks before new ballots are furnished to him. 
They shall upon the delivery of official ballots to each 
voter announce the voter’s name, the number printed on 
the stub of each ballot so delivered, and if in a city, or 
village having a population of five thousand or more, the 
voter’s residence by street and number, or if it have no 
street number a brief description of the locality thereof. 
Upon the return of a set of ballots to them unvoted by 
any voter they shall announce the name of the voter re¬ 
turning them and the printed number on the stub of the 
ballots so returned. They shall at once remove the stub 
from such ballot returned to them by voters and shall not 
again deliver any such returned ballots to a voter. Such 
returned ballot shall be deposited in the box for spoiled 
ballots. They shall place all detached stubs in the box for 
detached stubs. They shall immediately upon the closing 
of the polls at such election, prepare and sign a written 
statement showing the number of full sets of official ballots 
delivered by them to the voters, the number of such sets 
returned to them, the number of such sets not delivered by 
them to the voters, and the number of sets of detached 
stubs placed in the box for detached stubs; and shall in* 
close all such ballots not delivered to voters, and all such 
detached stubs, in sealed packages, and deliver them, 
together with such written statement, if in the city of 
Brooklyn, to the chairman of the board of canvassers, and 
if elsewhere to the chairman of the board of inspectors. 

Laws 1892, ch. 080, sec. 100. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1, 


63. General Duties of Poll Clerks. 

Each poll clerk at each polling place for which official 
ballots are required to be provided, shall have a book for 
Keeping the poll-list thereof, containing columns headed 
respectively, “Numbers on ballots,” “Number of voters,’ 
“Names of voters” and “Residence of voters.” If there 
shall be an additional ballot box for votes cast upon a pro¬ 
posed constitutional amendment or other proposition or 
queslion, for which separate ballot boxes are provided, as 
prescribed by this act, there shall be an additional column 
in each poll-list book for each ballot box, headed with the 
number and other designations thereof. Upon each deli¬ 
very of an official ballot or a set of official ballots by the 
ballot clerks to a voter, each poll clerk shall enter upon his 
poll list, in the appropriate columns, the printed number 
upon the stubs of the ballots so delivered, the number of 
the voter, the name of the voter, in the alphabetical order 
of the first letter of his surname, and the residence of the 
voter by street and number, or if it have no street number, 
a brief description of the locality thereof. If the ballot or 
set of ballots delivered to any voter shall be returned by 
him to the ballot clerks, the ballot number thereof, so 
entered on the poll-list, shall be canceled, by drawing a 
mark through it, leaving the number still legible, and 
upon the delivery of each additional ballot or set of ballots 
by the ballot clerks to the same voter, the poll clerks shall 
add opposite the name of such voter on the poll-list, in the 
proper column, the printed number on the stubs of such 
additional ballot or set of ballots. Each poll clerk shall 
designate upon his poll-list, every person entered upon his 
list, who shall have been challenged and taken either of the 
oaths upon such challenge, or who shall have received 
assistance in preparing his ballot, by some appropriate 
mark or entry opposite the name of each such person, and 
shall also enter upon his poll-list the name and residence of 


the person who renders such assistance, and a brief state¬ 
ment of the facts sworn to by the person assisted. As each 
voter offers bis ballot or set of ballots to the inspectors, 
each poll clerk shall report to the inspector whether the 
number entered on the poll-list kept by him, as the num¬ 
ber on the stub of the ballot or set of ballots last delivered 
to such voter, is the same as the number on the stub of the 
ballot or set of ballots so offered. As each \oter votes, 
each poll clerk shall check the name of such voter on liis 
poll-list and if there be more than one ballot box for the 
reception of votes cast, shall enter a check in each column 
headed to correspond to each ballot box into which a ballot 
of such voter is deposited. Upon the close of the polls of 
the election, the poll clerks shall deliver such poll-lists to 
the chairman of the board of inspectors thereof. 

Laws 1892. ch. G80, sec. 107. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

04. General Duties of Inspeetors in Connec¬ 
tion with Balloting . 

One of the inspectors of election at each polling place, 
while the polls of an election thereat are open, shall be 
designated by the inspectors of election to receive the bal¬ 
lots from the voters voting; or if the majority of the 
inspectors shall not agree in such designation, they shall 
draw lots for such position. If it be an election for which 
voters are required to be registered, the other inspectors 
shall, before any ballots are delivered by the ballot clerks 
to a voter, ascertain whether such voter is duly registered, 
and so announce to the ballot clerks, who shall not deliver 
any ballots to such voter until such inspectors announce 
that such voter is registered. Upon each delivery of 
ballots to a voter, such inspectors shall enter opposite the 
name of such voter upon the register and in each of the 
certified copies thereof, the number printed on the stubs 
of the ballots of each set so delivered, canceling any 


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previous Dumber so entered, without rendering it illegible. 
As each person, so registered, votes, they shall check his 
name upon such register, and upon each of the three cer¬ 
tified copies thereof. The inspectors shall, forthwith upon 
detaching the stubs from any official ballots, deliver such 
detached stubs to the ballot clerks. 

Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. 108. 

65. Challenge and Preliminary Oath . 

A person may be challenged either when he applies to 
the ballot clerk for official ballots, or when he offers to an 
inspector the ballot he intends to \ ote, or previously by 
notice to that effect to an inspector, by an elector. The 
name of the person challenging shall not be disclosed by 
an election officer unless required by a court or a judicial 
officer. It shall be the duty of each inspector to challenge 
every person offering to vote, whom he shall know or sus¬ 
pect not to be duly qualified as an elector. If any person 
offering to vote at any election shall be challenged in rela¬ 
tion to his right to vote thereat, one of the inspectors shall 
tender to him the following preliminary oath: “You do 
swear (or affirm) that you will fully and truly answer all 
Such questions as shall be put to jou touching your place 
of residence and qualifications as an elector.” The inspec¬ 
tors or one of them shall then question the person chal¬ 
lenged in relation to his name; his place of residence 
before he came into that election district; his then place of 
residence; his citizenship; whether he be a native or 
naturalized citizen, and if the latter, when, where, and in 
what court, or before what officer he was naturalized; 
whether he came into the election district for the purpose 
of voting at that election; how long he contemplates resid¬ 
ing in the election district; and all other matters which 
may tend to test his qualifications as a resident of the elec¬ 
tion district, citizenship and right to vote at such election 
at such polling-place. If any person shall refuse to take 


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such preliminary oath when so tendered, or to answer fully 
any such question which shall be put to him, his vote shall 
be rejected. After receiving the answer of the person so 
challenged, the board of inspectors shall point out to him 
the qualifications, if any, in respect to which he shall 
appear to them deficient. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 110. 

66. General Oath in Challenge, 

If the person so offering to vote, shall persist in his claim 
to vote, and the challenge shall not he withdrawn, one of 
the inspectors shall then administer to him the following 
oath: 

“You do swear (or affirm) that you are twenty-one years of age, 
that you have been a citizen of the United States for ten days, and 
an inhabitant of this State for one year next preceding this elec¬ 
tion, and forthe last four months a resident of this county, and for 
thirty days a resident of this election district, and that you have 
not voted at this election.” 

If the person so offering to vote shall be challenged for 
causes stated in section two of article two of the constitu¬ 
tion of this State the following addditional oath shall be 
administered by one the inspectors: 

“You do swear (or affirm) that youlhave not received or offered, 
do not expect to receive, have not paid, offered or promised to pay, 
contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be 
paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation 
or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at this election, and 
have not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding 
of any such vote; and that you have not made, or become directly 
or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the re¬ 
sult of this election.” 

If the person so offering shall be challenged on the 
ground of having been convicted of bribery or any in¬ 
famous crime, the following additional oath shall be 
administered to him by one of the inspectors: 

“You do swear (or affirm) that you have not been convicted of 
bribery or any infamous crime, or if so convicted, that you have 
been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen.” 




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If any person shall refuse to take either oath so tendered, 
his vote shall be rejected. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 111. 

67. Inspectors must keep Minutes of all 
Challenges. 

The inspectors of election shall keep a minute of their 
proceedings in respect to the challenging and administer¬ 
ing oaths to persons offering to vote, in which shall be 
entered, by one of them, the name of every person who 
shall be challenged or take either of such oaths, specifying 
in each case whether the preliminary oath or the general 
oath, or both were taken. At the close of the election, at 
each polling-place, the inspectors thereat shall add to such 
minutes a certificate to the effect that the same are all such 
minutes as to all persons challenged at such election. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 1)2. 


Canvassing of Votes. 


68. Preparing for the Canvass. 

As soon as the poll of an election shall have been finally 
closed, the inspectors of election, in their several election 
districts, shall immediately, and at the place of the poll, 
proceed to canvass the votes. Such canvass shall be pub¬ 
lic, and shall not be adjourned or postponed until it shall 
have been fully completed, and the several statements 
hereinafter required to be made by the inspectors shall 
have been made out and signed by them. No vote shall 
be received, nor shall an} r ballot be counted or canvassed, 
nor shall any statement of votes, announcement, or procla¬ 
mation, in this chapter required, be made at any time 
when the main entrance to the room in which the election 
is held shall be closed in such a manner as to prevent in¬ 
gress and egress, but the said inspectors may station one or 




5? 


more officers at such entrance to exclude disorderly per¬ 
sons; nor shall any such duties he performed unless at least 
six persons, if so many claim that privilege, are allowed to 
be present, and so near that they can see whether the du¬ 
ties of the said inspectors are faithfully performed. Each 
candidate for any office to be filled at the election may, by 
a certificate in writing, signed by him, designate one per¬ 
son for each election district in which he is a candidate, to 
be present at the canvass of the ballots containing the 
names of the persons designated for that office. The in¬ 
spectors of election and the police or other officers attend¬ 
ing at such election district specified in said certificate, 
shall make a passage for such person to the said inspectors, 
and the said inspectors shall permit him to be present at the 
canvass of all the ballots in the box containing the ballots 
for the office specified in the said certificate, and so near to 
them that he can see that such canvass, and the statement 
required of the votes found in each box, are correctly 
made. And no inspector of elections, or board of inspec¬ 
tors, or police or other officer, shall allow such person to 
be molested or removed during the canvass of such ballots, 
or until such statement has been made, completed and 
signed, unless he shall be personally guilty of fraudulent 
or disorderly conduct. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1885. 

60. Counting the Ballots, 

As soon as the polls of an election are closed, the inspec¬ 
tors of election thereat, shall publicly canvass and ascertain 
the votes and not adjourn or postpone the canvass until it 
shall be fully completed. They shall commence by com¬ 
paring the two poll-lists with each other, correcting any 
mistakes therein and by counting the ballots found in the 
ballot-boxes without unfolding them, except so far as to 
ascertain that each ballot is single, and by comparing the 
ballots found in each box with the number shown by the 



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poll-lists to Lave been deposited therein. If the ballots 
found in any box shall be more than the number of ballots 
so shown to have been deposited therein, such ballots shall 
all be replaced without being unfolded in the box from 
which they w 7 ere taken and shall be thoroughly mingled 
therein and one of the inspectors or canvassers designated 
by the board shall, without seeing the same and with his 
back to the box publicly draw out as many ballots as 
shall be equal to such excess and without unfolding them 
forthwith destroy them. If two or more ballots shall be 
found in a ballot box so folded together as to present the 
appearance of a single ballot they shall be destroyed if the 
whole number of ballots in such ballot box exceeds the 
whole number of ballots shown by the poll-lists to have 
been deposited therein and not otherwise. If there law¬ 
fully be more than one ballot box for the reception of 
ballots voted at any one polling place, no ballot properly 
indorsed, found in the wrong ballot box shall be rejected 
but shall be counted in the same manner as if found in the 
proper ballot box, if such ballot shall not together with 
the ballots found in the proper ballot box make a total of 
more ballots than are shown by the poll-lists to have been 
deposited in the proper box. No ballot that has not the 
official indorsement shall be counted except such as are 
voted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter 
relating to unofficial ballots. If requested by any watcher 
the inspectors or canvassers shall, during the canvass, ex¬ 
hibit any and all ballots cast at such election or town 
meeting to such watcher fully opened, and in such a con¬ 
dition that he may fully and carefully read and examine 
the same, but such inspector or canvasser shall not allow 
any such ballot to be taken from his hand. When any 
inspector, ballot clerk, or watcher, shall demand an oral 
count of the vote upon candidates for a particular office, 
the chairman of the board shall take all the ballots into his 


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possession, and call aloud the names of the candidates for 
such office as they appear upon the respective ballots, and 
shall hand the ballots, as fast as he calls the names from 
them to the other inspectors for verification. The poll 
clerks shall each keep tally of the number of votes called 
for each candidate, and announce the result as soon as the 
count is completed; and the figures shall thereupon be 
submitted to the inspectors, ballot clerks and watchers, for 
examination. The room in which such canvass is made 
shall be clearly lighted and such canvass shall be made in 
plain view of the public. When in a case not provided for 
by sections one hundred and four and one hundred and 
five of this act an inspector of election or other election 
officer or duly authorized watcher shall, during a canvass 
of the votes, or immediately after the completion thereof, 
declare his belief that aDy particular ballot has been 
written upon or marked in any way for the purpose of 
identification, the inspectors or canvassers shall write on 
the back of such ballot the words “objected to because 
marked for identification,” or words in substance to that 
effect, and sign their names thereto, and attach each such 
ballot to their written statement of the result of the can¬ 
vass. Each such ballot shall be counted by them the same 
as if not so objected to. When two or more ballot boxes 
are provided for the reception of different kinds of ballots, 
as hereinbefore provided, the said ballot boxes shall be 
opened and ballots canvassed in the following order, 
namely: First, the box containing the general ballots; 
secondly, the box containing the ballots cast upon any con¬ 
stitutional amendment or other proposition or question. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 114. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

70. Completing the Canvass , 

One ballot of each kind to be pasted to statement of 


canvass. 




CO 

Inspectors to make proclamation of the result of such 
canvass. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, secs. 114, 116. 

A written statement of the result of canvass to he imme¬ 
diately delivered to the police. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1894. 

Statements of canvass and tallies shall be made and deli¬ 
vered within twenty-four hours to the clerk of board of al¬ 
dermen, county clerk and chief of bureau of elections. 

One set of tallies shall be delivered to the mayor and one 
to the chief of the bureau of elections. The poll-lists shall 
be certified by both clerks and within twenty-four hours 
filed, one with the county clerk and one with the chief of 
the bureau of elections. Ballots not pasted to statements 
shall be destoyed. 

Inspectors, ballot and poll clerks are required to take re¬ 
ceipts for all papers filed by them. 

Undistributed ballots to be preserved. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 117. 

Re-enacted Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

Ballots marked for identification. If objected to, when 
a recount may be had. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 118. 

Names of electors on registry who have not voted to be 
marked ‘‘no,” on closing polls and before the canvass is 
begun. 

Laws 1882, ch. 480, sec. 1882. 

The sealed envelopes, directed to the clerk of the board 
of aldermen and county clerk shall not be opened until the 
same are produced before the board of county canvassers. 

Election records shall be open to the public at all times 
during office hours, and copies thereof may be made. 


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County Canvassers. 


71. The Hoard of Aldermen of the City of New 
York shall be the board of county canvassers. 

Proceedings of the canvass. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, secs. 130, 135. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

Such board may correct errors. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 132. 

Their proceedings and result to be tiled with county 
clerk. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 135. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

County clerk to transmit copies thereof to the governor, 
secretary of state and comptroller within five days after 
such filing. Other duties required of county clerk in con¬ 
nection therewith. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 137. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

72. State Board of Canvassers. 

Such board shall meet and make a final canvass from the 
certified copies of the county clerk’s. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 139. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

73. Constitutional Amendments . 

When provided by law that such an amendment is to be 
submitted to a popular vote, the secretary of state shall in¬ 
clude in his notice of the general election, a copy thereof, 
with the form of ballot; and if more than one amendment 
they shall be separately and consecutively numbered. 

If it is to be submitted at a special election he shall make 
and transmit a like notice at least thirty days before the 
day of election. The county clerk shall file and record 
same. 



G2 


Laws 1892, cli. 680, sec. G. 

Amended Laws 1895, cli. 810, sec. 1. 

74. Form of Ballot. 

The ballot shall conform to other official ballots, with 
the question of the proposed amendment clearly printed. 
Opposite, and before each amendment shall be printed two 
squares inclosed in ruled lines, one above the other. Pre¬ 
ceding the upper one shall be printed “Yes,” and preced¬ 
ing the lower one “No.” At the top of the ballot, and 
immediately above the perforated line, shall be printed 
these words, enclosed in brackets—“Notice to voters: For 
an affirmative vote upon any question submitted upon this 
ballot, make across (X) mark in the square after the word 
‘Yes.’ For a negative vote, make a similar mark in the 
square following the word ‘No.’ ” Back of ballot, below 
the stub, to have appropriate inscription to distinguish it 
from a ballot for a candidate, and the fac-simile of the 
signature of the officer, or of the president, or of the clerk 
of the board furnishing the same. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 83. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 

75. Secretary of State shall cause each concurrent 
resolution of the two houses of the legislature agreeing to a 
proposed amendment to the constitution, to be published. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 7. 

Amended Laws 1895, ch. 810, sec. 1. 


Special Elections. 


76. A vacancy occurring before October 15, in 
any year, in any office authorized to be filled at a general 
election, shall be filled at the general election next thereaf¬ 
ter, unless otherwise provided by the constitution, or un¬ 
less previously filled at a special election, or unless a special 




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election therefor shall have been ordered to be held on or 
after such fifteenth day of October and before such general 
election. 

Proclamation shall be made by the governor specifying 
the district or county in which such special election is to be 
held, and the date thereof, which shall be not less than 
twenty nor more than forty days from date of proclama¬ 
tion. 

To fill a vacancy in the office of representative of con¬ 
gress, a special election shall not be held unless such 
vacancy occur on or before the first day of July of the last 
year of the term of office, or unless occurring thereafter 
and a special session of congress be called to meet before 
the next general election, or be called after October four¬ 
teenth of such year; nor to fill a vacancy in the office of 
state senator, unless vacancy occur before the first day of 
April of the last year of term of office; nor to fill a vacancy 
in the office of a member of assembly, unless occurring 
before the first day of April of any year, unless the vacancy 
occur in either of such office of senator or member of 
assembly, after such first day of April, and a special ses¬ 
sion of the legislature be called to meet between such first 
day of April and the next general election, or be called 
after October fourteenth of such year. If a special election 
to fill an office shall not be held as required by law, the 
office shall be filled at the next general election. 

Laws 1892, ch. 680, sec. 4. 

Registry for a special election. 

A revision of the general registration of voters shall be 
made on the Friday and Saturday of the second week pre¬ 
ceding the day of each and every special election. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1857. 

Inspectors’ Duties. 

Organize, and select chairman; remain in session from 
eight a. m. to nine p. m.; receive the applications for regis- 


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tration of such male residents of the election district whose 
names are not then borne upon the registers thereof as 
qualified voters therein, who personally present themselves, 
and who, on the day of election next ensuing, would be 
entitled to vote therein, and otherwise proceed as required 
by subdivision four of section 1858 of chapter 410 of Laws 
of 1882; except that they are to correct their register as to 
those persons moved into such district since the last general 
registration or revision thereof by requiring, if elsewhere 
registered, a certificate of erasure, as required by section 
1860 of said law. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1859. 

The inspector’s copy of the last registration of voters is to 
be used for re-registration at any special election registra¬ 
tion . 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1864. 

77. Deaths of Voters. 

A list of persons twenty-one years of age and upwards 
who have died since the last general election, shall be fur¬ 
nished to the inspectors of registry for use at all special 
registrations, by the chief of the bureau of elections, and 
they shall use same in revising their registry. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1868. 

Such chief of the bureau of elections shall also furnish 
to such inspectors a further list of such deaths as have 
occurred since prior report and up to or within three days 
prior to the day of any local election held in the City of 
New York. Such lists shall be attached to the registers 
and filed with same. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, secs. 1869, 1870. 

78. Registry Provisions applied to any portion of 
the city and county of New York. 

Laws 1882, ch. 410, sec. 1880. 


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THE PENAL CODE. 


OF CRIMES AGAINST THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. 

Sec. 41. Any person who votes or attempts to vote at a politi al 
caucus or convention without being entitled to do so ; or by bribery, 
menace or other corrupt means, directly or indirectly, attempts to 
influence the vote of any person entitled to vote at such caucus 
or convention, or obstructs such person in voting or prevents him 
from voting thereat; or fraudulently and wrongfully does any act 
tending to effect t the result of an election at such caucus or con¬ 
vention ; or being an officer, teller or canvasser thereof, wilfully 
omits, refuses or neglects to do any act required by the election 
law, or refuses to permit any person to do any act authorized 
thereby, or make or attempt to make any false canvass of the 
ballots cast at such caucus or convention, or statement of the 
result of a canvass of the ballots cast thereat; or induces or 
attempts to induce any officer, teller or canvasser of such convent¬ 
ion to do any act in violation of his duty; is guilty of a mis¬ 
demeanor. 

Sec. 41a. Any person who causes his name to be placed upon 
any list or register of voters in more than one election district for 
the same election, or upon a list or register of voters, knowing 
that he will not be a qualified voter in the district at the elect¬ 
ion for which such list or register is made, or aids or abets any 
such act, is punishable by imprisonment for not more than five 
years. 

Sec. 41 b. Any person who wilfully loses, destroys or mu ilates 
the list or register of votes in any election district, or a certified 
copy thereof, after making the same and before the closing of the 
polls of the election for which the same is made, is guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 

Sec. 41 c. Any member or clerk of a registry board who wilfully 
violates any provision of the election law relative to registration 
of electors, or wilfully neglects or refuses to perform any duties 
of his office, shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than 
two or more than ten years. 

Sec. 41 d. Any person dwelling in a building in a city who wil¬ 
fully refuses to truly answer any question asked by an elector of 
such city, between the first meeting of the boards of registry 


tSo in the origina’. 






66 * 

therein for any election and the closing of the polls at such elect¬ 
ion, relating to the residence and qualifications as a voter of any 
person dwelling in such building, or of any per-on who appears 
upon the list or register of voters made by a board of registry as 
residing at such building, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 41 e. Any person who during an election or town meeting, 
wilfully defaces or injures a voting booth or compartment, or 
wilfully removes or destroys any of the supplies or other con¬ 
veniences placed in the voting booths or compartments in pursu¬ 
ance of law; or before the closing of the polls, wilfully defaces or 
destroys any list of candidates to be voted for at such election or 
town meeting, posted in accordance with the election law ; or 
during an election or town meeting, wilfully removes or defaces 
the cards, for the instruction of voters, posted in accordance with 
the election law, is guilty of a misdemeanor 

Sec. 41 f. A person or corporation who refuses to an employe 
entitled to vote at an election or town meeting, the privilege of 
attending thereat, as provided by the election law, or subjects 
such employe to a penalty of reduction of wages because of the 
exercise of such privilege, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 41 g. A person who falsely makes or makes oath to, or 
fraudulently defaces or destroys, a certificate of nomination or 
any part thereof; or files or receives for filing a certificate of 
nomination knowing that any part thereof was falsely made; or 
suppresses a certificate of nomination wffiich has been duly fil^d, 
or any part thereof; or forces or falsely makes the official endorse¬ 
ment of any ballot; or having charge of official ballots, destroys, 
conceals or suppresses them, except as provided by law. ‘ is 
punishable by imprisonment for not less than one or more than 
five years. 

Sec 41 h. Any person who has undertaken to deliver official 
ballots to any city, town or village clerk, or inspector, as author¬ 
ized by the election law, and neglects or refuses to do so is guilty 
of a misdemeanor 

Sec. 41 i. Any election officer or watcher who, reveals to another 
person the name of any candidate for whom a voter has voted ; or 
communicates to another person his opinion, belief or impression as 
to how or for whom a voter has voted; or places a mark upon a 
ballot, or does any other act by which one ballot can be distinguish¬ 
ed from another, or can be identified; or, before the closing of the 
polls, unfolds a ballot which a voter has prepared for voting, is 
punishable by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more 
than one year. 

Sec. 41 j. A public officer who omits, refuses or neglects to per¬ 
form any act required of him by the election law 7 , or refuses to per¬ 
mit the doing of any act authorized thereby, is, if not otherwise, 
provided by law, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 
three years, or by a fine of not more than three thousand dollars or 
both. 

Sec. 41 k. Any person who : acts as an inspector of election, poll 
clerk or ballot clerk, without being able to read and w 7 rite the Eng¬ 
lish language, or without being otherwise qualified to hold such 
office; or being an inspector of election, knowingly and wilfully 
permits or suffers any person to vote who is not entitled to vote 
thereat; or wilfully and unlawfully obstructs, hinders or delavs, or 
aids or assists in obstructing or delaying any elector on his w r *ay to 
a registration or polling place, or while he is attempting to register 
or vote; or, electioneers on election day, within a polling place, or 


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in a public street or room, or in any public manner, within one 
hundred and fifty feet* of a polling place; or remove any official 
ballot from a polling place before the closing of the polls ; or un¬ 
lawfully goes within the guard-rail after having been commanded 
to remove therefrom by any inspector of election ; or enters a 
voting booth with any voter or remains in a voting booth while 
it is occupied by any voter, or opens the door of a voting booth 
when the same is occupied by a voter, with the intent to watch 
such voter while engaged in the preparation of his ballot, except 
as authorized by the election law; or being or claiming to be 
a voter, permits any other person to be in a voting booth 
with him while engaged in the preparation of his ballot, except 
as authorized by the election law, without openly protesting 
against and asking that such person be ejected; or having law¬ 
fully entered a voting booth with a voter, requests, persuades or 
induces such voter to vote any particular ballot or for any particular 
candidate, or, directly or indirectly, reveals to another the name of 
any candidate voted for b such voter, or anything occurring with¬ 
in such voting booth; or, show his ballot after it is prepared for 
voting to any person, so as to reveal the contents, or solicits a voter 
to show the same; or places any mark upon his ballot, or does any 
other act in connection with his ballot, with the intent that it may 
be identified as the one voted by him; or places any mark upon, or 
does any other act in connection with a ballot or paster ballot, with 
the intent that it may afterwards be identified as having been voted 
by any particular person; or receives any official ballot from any 
person other than one of the ballot clerks having charge of the 
ballots; or not being a balloc clerk, delivers any official ballot to a 
voter; or not being an inspector of election, receives from any 
voter a ballot prepared for voting; or fails to return to the ballot 
clerk*, before leaving the polling place or going outside the guard 
rail, each ballot not voted by him ; or wilfully disobeys any lawful 
command of the board of inspectors, or any member thereof, is 
guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall apply to general and 
special elections, municipal elections and town meetings, but no¬ 
thing therein shall prevent any person from receiving or delivering 
an unofficial sample ballot, or from receiving, delivering and voting 
an unofficial ballot as authorized by the election law. 

Sec. 411. Any person who has been convicted of an infamous 
crime and has been sentenced or committed therefor to a state 
prison or penitentiary, who votes at any election unless he shall have 
been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen, is guilty of 
a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 41 m. Any person who, knowingly votes or offers to vote at 
any election or town meeting, when not qualified; or procures, aids, 
assists, counsels or advises any person to go or come into any town, 
ward or election district, for the purpose of voting at any election or 
town meeting, known that such person is not qualified; or votes or 
offers to vote at an election or town meeting mere than once; or 
votes or offers to vote at an election or town meeting under any 
other name than his own; or votes or offers to vote at an election or 
tow r n meeting in an election district or place w r here he does not 
reside; or procures, aids, assists, commands or advises another to 


* The Amended Law, Chapter 810 of 1895, reduces the distance 
to one hundred feet, and repeals all laws and parts of laws incon¬ 
sistent with such amendments. 



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vote or offer to vote at an election or town meeting knowing that 
such person is not qualified to vote thereat; or being an inhabitant of 
another state or county, votes or offers to vote at an election or 
town meeting in this state, is guilty of felony, punishable by 
imprisonment in a state prison not less than two or more than 
five years. 

Sec. 41 n. An inspector or poll clerk of an election or town meet¬ 
ing, who intentionally makes, or attempts to make, a false canvass 
of the ballots cast thereat, or any false statement of the result of a 
canvass though not signed by a majority of the inspectors, or any 
person who induces or attempts to induce any such inspector or 
clerk so to do, is guilty of a felony. 

Sec. 41 o. Any person who, with the intent to promote the elect¬ 
ion of a person to an elective office: Furnishes entertainment to the 
electors before or during an election or town meeting at which such 
person is a candidate; or pays for, procures, or engages to pay for 
such entertainment; or furnishes money or other property; or 
engages to compensate any person for procuring the attendance of 
voters at the polls of such election or town meeting; or contributes 
money for any other purpose than the printing and circulating of 
hand bills, books and other papers previous to an election or town 
meeting, or conveying such poor or infirm elector to the polls, is 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec. 41 p. Any person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or 
through any other person ; Pays, lends or contributes, or offers or 
promises to pay, lend or contribute any money or other valuable 
consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, to 
induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or 
to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at such election 
for any particular person or persons, or for or against any particular 
proposition submitted to voters, or to induce such voter to come to 
the polls or remain away from the polls at such election, or to induce 
such voter to place or cause to be placed or refrain from placing or 
causing to be placed his name upon a registry of voters, or on 
account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting or hav¬ 
ing voted or refrained from voting for or against any particular 
person or for or against any proposition submitted to voters or hav¬ 
ing come to the polls or remained away from the polls at such 
election, or having placed or caused to be placed or refrained from 
placing or causing to be placed his name upon the registry of voters; 
or gives, offers or promises any office, place or employment, or 
promises to procure or endeavor to procure any office, place or 
employment to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, in 
order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any 
election, or to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting at 
such election, for or against any particular person or persons, or for 
or against any proposition submit'ed to voters, or to induce any 
voter to place or cause to be placed or refrain from placing or caus¬ 
ing to be placed his name upon a registry of voters; or gives, offers 
or promises any office, place or employment or valuable thing as an 
inducement for any voter or other person to procure or aid in pro¬ 
curing either a large or small vote, plurality or majority at any 
election district, or other political division of the state, for a 
candidate or candidates to be voted for at an election • or to cause 
a larger or smaller vote, plurality or ma jority to he cast or given 
for any candidate or candidates in one such district or political 
division than in another; or make any gift, loan, promise, offer, 
procurement or agreement as aforesaid to, for or with any person 


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to induce such person to procure or endeavor to procure the elect¬ 
ion of any person or the vote of any voter at any e ection; or pro¬ 
cures or engages, or promises or endeavors to procure, in 
consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or 
agreement, the election of any person or the vote of any voter, at 
such election; or advances or pays, or causes to be paid, any 
money or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other person 
with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, shall be used in 
bribery at any election, or knowingly pays or causes to be paid any 
money or other valuable thing to any person in discharge or repay¬ 
ment of any money, wholly or in part expended in bribery at any 
election, is guilty of an infamous crime punishable by imprisonment 
for not less than three months nor more than one year, and in 
addition forfeits any office to which he may have been elected at the 
election with reference to which such offense was committed, and 
becomes incapable of holding any public office under the consti¬ 
tution and laws of this state for a period of five years after such 
conviction. 

Sec. 41 q. Any person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or 
through any other person : Receives, agrees, or contracts for. before 
or during an election, any money, gift, loan, or other valuable con¬ 
sideration, office, place or employment for himself or any other per¬ 
son, for violating or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing to 
come to the polls, or for remaining away or agreeing to remain 
away from the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from 
registering as a voter, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from 
voting, or for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agree¬ 
ing to refrain from voting for or against any particular person or 
persons at any election, or for or against any proposition submitted 
to voters at such election; or receives any money or other valuable 
thing during or after an election on account of himself or any other 
person having voted or refrained from voting at such an election, or 
having registered or refrained from registering as a voter, or on 
account of himself or any other peison having voted or refrained 
from voting for or against any particular person at such election, or 
for or against any proposition submitted to voters at such election, 
or on account of himself or any other person having come to the 
polls or remained away from the polls at such election, or having 
registered or refrained from registering as a voter, or on account of 
having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting for 
or against any particular person or persons at such election, or for 
or against any proposition submitted to voters at such election, is 
guilty of an infamous crime, punishable by imprisonment for not 
less than three months, nor more than one year, and in addition 
shall be excluded from the right of sufferage for five years after 
such conviction ; and the county clerk of the county in which such 
person is convicted shall transmit a certified copy of the record 
of conviction to the clerk of each county of the state, within 
ten days thereafter, which copy shall be filed in his office by each 
of such clerks. 

Sec. 41 r. A person offending against any provision of section 
forty-one-p or of section forty-one-q of this code is a competent 
witness against another pet son so offending, and may be compelled 
to attend and testify on any trial, hearing or proceeding, or inves¬ 
tigation in the same manner as any other person. The testimony so 
given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or 
criminal, against the person testifying. A person testifying shall not 
thereafter be liable to indictment, prosecution or punishment for 



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the offense with reference to which his testimony was given, and 
may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of 
such an indictment or prosecution. 

Sec. 41s. Any person who, directly or indirectly, by bribery, 
menace or other corrupt means, controls or attempts to control an 
elector of this state enlisted in the military service of the United 
States, in the exercise of his rights under the election law, or annoys, 
injures or punishes him for the manner in which he exercises such 
right, is guilty of a misdemeanor for which he may be tried at any 
future time when he may be found within this state; and upon con¬ 
viction thereof shall thereafter be ineligible to any office therein. 

Sec. 411. Any person or corporation who, directly or indirectly : 
Uses or threatens to use any force, violence or restraint, or inflicts 
or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any 
other manner practices intimidation upon or against any person in 
order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting 
at any election or to vote or refrain from voting for or against any 
particular person or persons or for or against any proposition sub¬ 
mitted to voters at such election, or to place or caused to be placed 
or refrain from placing or causing to be placed his name upon a 
registry of voters, or on account of such person having voted * or 
refrained from voting at such election,..or having voted or refrained 
for voting for or against any particular person or persons,, or. for or 
against any proposition submitted to voters at such election, or 
having registered or refrained from registering as a voter; or by 
abduction, duress, or any forcible or fraudulent device or contriv¬ 
ance whatever impedes, prevents or otherwise interferes with the 
free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter, or compels, 
induces or prevails upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his 
vote for or against any particular person at any election; or, being 
an employer pays his employe the salary or wages due in “pay 
envelopes,” upon which there is written or printed any political 
motto, device or argument containing threats, express or implied, 
intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions 
of such employes, or within ninety days of a general election puts 
or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or place where his 
employes are engaged in labor, any hand bill or placard containing 
any threat, notice or information, that if any particular ticket or 
candidate is elected or defeated, work in his place or establishment 
will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment be closed up, or 
the wages of his employes reduced, or other threats express or 
implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or 
actions of his employes, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and if a corpor¬ 
ation shall in addition forfeit its charter. 

Sec. 41 u. Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or 
prevent the election of any person or persons to a public office by 
the use of any means which are prohibited by law, shall be punish¬ 
ed by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than one 
year; provided, any act besides such agreement be done to effect the 
object thereof by one or more of the parties to such conspiracy 

Sec. 41 v. Any person who, being an officer or employe of the 
state, or of a political subdivision thereof, directly or indirectly uses 
his authority or official influence to compel or induce any other 
officer or employe of the state or a political subdivision thereof, to 
pay or promise to pay any political assessment; or being an officer 


* So in the original. 




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or employe of the state, or of a political subdivision thereof, directly 
or indirectly, gives, pays or hands over to any other such officer or 
employe any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be 
applied to the promotion of his election, appointment or retention 
in office, or makes any promise, or gives any subscription to such 
officer or employe to pay or contribute any money or other valuable 
thing for any such purpose or object; or being such an officer or 
employe and having charge or control of any building, office or 
room occupied for any purpose of the state or of a political sub¬ 
division thereof, consents that any person enter the same for the 
purpose of making, collecting, receiving or giving notice of any 
political assessment; or enters or remains in any such office, build¬ 
ing or room, or directs any letter or other writing thereto, for the 
purpose of giving notice of demanding or collecting, or being there¬ 
in, gives notice of, demands, collects or receives, any political 
assessment; prepares or makes out, or takes any part in 'prepairing 
or making out, any political assessment, subscription or contribution, 
with the intent that the same shall be sent or presented to or 
■collected by any such officer or employe; or sends or presents any 
political assessment, subscription, or contribution to, or requests its 
payment of, any such officer or employe, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 

Sec 41 w. Any person who, while holding a pubiic office, or being 
nominated or seeking a nomination or appointment therefor, cor¬ 
ruptly uses or promises to use, directly or indirectly, any official 
authority or influence possessed or anticipated, in the way of con¬ 
ferring upon any person, or in order to secure, or aid any person 
in securing, any office or public employment, or any nomination, 
confirmation, promotion or increase of salary, upon consideration 
that the vote or political influence or action of the 'person so to be 
benefited or of any other person, shall be given or used in behalf of 
any candidate, officer or party or upon any other corrupt con¬ 
dition or consideration; or being a public officer or employe of the 
state or a political subdivision having, or claiming to have, any 
authority or influence effecting the nomination, public employment, 
confirmation, promotion, removal, or increase or decrease of salary 
of any public officer or employe, or promises or threatens to use, any 
such authority or influence, directly or indirectly to affect the vote 
or political action of any such public officer or employe, or on account 
of the vote or political action of such officer or employe; or makes, 
tenders or offers to procure, or cause any nomination or appoint¬ 
ment for any public office or place, or accepts or requests any such 
nomination or appointment, upon the payment or contribution of 
any valuable consideration, or upon an understanding or promise 
thereof, or makes any gift, promise or contribution to any person 
upon the condition or consideration of receiving an appointment or 
■election to a public office or a position of public employment, or 
for receiving or retaining any such office or position, or promotion, 
privilege, increase of salary or compensation therein, or exemption 
from removal or discharge therefrom, is punishable by imprison¬ 
ment for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than 
three thousand dollars or both. 

Sec. 41 x. Every candidate who is voted for at any public elect¬ 
ion held within this state shall, within ten days after such election, 
file as hereinafter provided an itimized statement showing in detail 
all the moneys contributed or expended by him, directly or in¬ 
directly, by himself or through any other person, in aid of his 
election. Such statement shall give the names of the various per¬ 
sons who received such moneys, the specific nature of each item, 


and the purpose for which it was expended or contributed. There 
shall be attached to such statement and affidavit subscribed and 
sworn to by such candidate, setting forth in substance that the 
statement thus made is in all respects true, and that the same is a 
full and detailed statement of all moneys so contributed or ex¬ 
pended by him, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any 
other person, in aid of his election. Candidates for offices to be 
filled by the electors of the entire state, or any division or district 
thereof greater than a county, shall file their statements in the 
office of secretary of state. The candidates of towm, village and 
city offices, excepting in the city of New York, shall file their 
statements in the office of the town, village or city clerk, respect¬ 
ively, and in cities wherein there is no city clerk, with the clerk of 
the' common council of the city wherein the election occurs. 
Candidates for all other offices, including all officers in the city 
and county of New York, shall file their statements in the office of 
the clerk of the county wherein the election occurs. Any candidate 
for office w 7 ho refuses or neglects to file a statement as prescribe! 
in this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and also forfeit his' 
office. 

* Sec. 41 x. Any person who knowingly and wilfully procures 
from any court, judge, clerk, or other officer, a certificate of natural¬ 
ization, which has been allowed, issued, signed or sealed in violation 
of the laws of the United States, or this state, with intent to enable 
himself or any other person to vote at any election when he or such 
person is not entitled by the law r s of the United States to become 
a citizen, or to exercise the elective franchise, is guilty of a felony. 

* Sec. 41 y. A person who knowingly and wilfully presents to any 
board of officers, for the purpose of having himself or any other per¬ 
son placed upon any list of registry of voters, or to any board of 
officers for the purpose of enabling himself or any other person 
to vote at any election, any certificate of naturalization which has 
been allow r ed or procured from any judicial officer, clerk of a 
court, or other ministerial officer of a court, by any false statement, 
oath or representation, or in violation of the law f s of the United 
States, or of this state, with intent to enable any person to vote at 
any election, when such person is not entitled by the law's of the 
United States to become a citizen, or of this state, to exercise the 
elective franchise, is guilty of a felony. 


* Omission to change letter made by Legislature of 1894. 




INDEX. 


The Reference is to the Paragraph Number , unless others 
wise stated. 


ADJOURMENT. 

After polls are open, no...& 

BALLOT BOXES. 

At each polling place, one for each kind of ballot.. .48 

To be examined and locked..54 

BALLOT CLERKS. 

Duties of.54, 57, 62 

BALLOTS. 

Emblem or device on.Page 

Form of, for general election.. .. .50- 

Form of, for constitutional amendment.74 

How to mark, when voting. 59 

Manner of folding. 57 

Number on stub.50, 57 

Preparation of. 59 

Sample. 50, 51 

Unofficial. 61 

BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS. 

To have sample, and other ballots for inspection .. .51 

To provide and deliver ballots.43, 49 

CANVASS. 

Announcement of result of.68, 70 

Mode of conducting.68, 69 

No adjournment of.68 

State board, when to.72 

Statement of, by county board . 71 

To be public.68 

When first to be made,.68 

CANVASSERS. (Inspectors, &c.) 

Inspectors to act as.68 

CHALLENGE. 

By whom may be made..16 

May be made at registry.*.16 

May be made at polls.65 

Minutes of, to be kept..45, 67 

Oath to be administered on.66 

Oath, if refused, precludes voting.18 



































74 


CHALLENGERS. 

Number and position of.56 

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. 

Proceedings as to.73 

COUNTY CLERK. 

Duties of.4 

DEATHS. 

Certain, to be reported to registry inspectors.77 

DISABLED VOTER. 

If disabled after voting, wliat to do.. .. . .60 

May have assistance preparing ballot.8 

To make oath when registering .Page 15 

Who can assist.Page 15 

ELECTION, General. 

Secretary of State to give notice of.4 

Special . 76 

Time of general.5 

ELECTION DISTRICTS. 

Creation, division, alteration of.2 

ELECTIONEERING. 


Within 100 feet of polls prohibited.31, 56 

ELECTION OFFICERS AND BALLOT CLERKS. 


Appointment of.41, 47 

Misconduct by. 47 

Who are.47 

EMBLEMS AND DEVICES. 

The new law as to.Page 9 

EMPLOYES. 

Have two hours time to vote.30 

No deduction of wages or other penalty.30 

Refusal to permit, to attend election, peualty, 


GUARD RAILS. 

Construction and location of.53 

Who to be admitted within..55 

ILLITERATE VOTERS. 

May have assistance preparing ballot.8 

To make oath when registering .Page 15 

Who can assist.Page 15 

INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS. {See Nominations.) 
INSPECTORS OF ELECTION AND REGISTRY. 

Appointment of.41,41 

Canvass of votes by.68, 69, 70 





























75 


Duties of. Page 15 

General duties of.45, 54, 58, 64, 76 

Political qualifications.,.44,47 

Powers of.’.46 

To assist illiterate or crippled voters.Page 15 

INSTRUCTION CARDS. 

Contents, language, number of.'..51 

To be posted, when and where. 51 

INTOXICATING OR SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. &c. 

Sale prohibited, when and where.10 

JUSTICES OF COURTS. 

Powers and duties of. 10 

MANNER OF VOTING. 

See new ballot law. 60 

MISTAKES IN REGISTRY- 

How corrected ; if by moving.20 21 

NATURALIZATION. 

United States law as to.Page 7 

Minors, duty of, in order to vote.Page 7 

Papers of, when to be shown.Page 7 

NOMINATIONS. 

Certificate of, by Secretary of State.37 

Declination of.39 

Filling vacancies in.42 

Independent, how made.33, 34 

Objections to certificates, filing of.40 

Party.32 

Printed list of, to be published.38 

OATHS. 

All election officers must take.47 

Disabled or illiterate voter must make.Page 15 

Disabled or illiterate voter, when registering. .Page 15 

Disabled, if after registry, when to make.60 

Every registr}” applicant, must make.45 

Refusal to make, disqualifies.18 

Voter challenged must make.66 

PENALTIES. 

For violation of Election laws.20 to 29 

POLL CLERKS. 

Are election officers.47 

General duties of. 54, 63 

POLLS. 

Designation of places for holding.9 

Time of opening and closing.7 



































76 


REGISTER OF VOTERS. 

Copy to be posted ...15 

How to be kept.Page 13 

When to be made.12. 

RE-REGISTRATION. 

After removing from district, how made.21 

Changing residence in district, how made.20 

REGISTRY. 

Designation of places for holding.9 

Physical marks to be recorded on books of.. 11 

■SAMPLE BALLOTS. {See Ballots.) 

SATURDAY 

Not a holiday for registration purposes.12 

SECRETARY OF STATE. 

Certain duties of.4, 37, 75 

SPECIAL ELECTION. 

Proclamation for.76 

Revised registry for.76, 78 

STATE CANVASSERS. 

Duties of.72 

STUBS OF BALLOTS. 

What to be printed upon.50 

UNOFFICIAL BALLOTS. {See Ballot.) 

VOTERS. 

Can pass guard rail but once .60 

Disqualification of.13 

List of, to be made.14, 15 

May have assistance, if illiterate or disabled.8 

May have four trials preparing ballot.59 

Who may be registered as. 11 

VOTING BOOTH. 

Number of at each poll ...52 

Voter to enter to prepare ballot.59 

When five minutes within is only allowed.59 

WATCHERS. 

Appointment of, and location.56, 68 


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